It's been 35 years since American filmgoers were first spellbound when Nancy Kwan exultantly belted-out "I take pleasure in being a girl!" But for many Asian Americans, Flower tympanum Song -- the third of Rodger & Hammerstein's Asian Pacific musical trilogy (preced through The King & I in 1956 and toward the south Pacific in 1958) -- continues to live and breathe, and sing, as joyously as it did three and a half decades in the past.
Admittedly, like its couple predecessors, Flower Drum Song relied in succession exotic splendor for a great deal of of its splash. But in its
