AUGUST
2005
TV POLL
Vote For Your Favorite APA Films
WHAT WILL BE OUR NEXT SUCCESSFUL TV
ACTORS?
Within
this monthly "TELEVISION POLL" (see
below) - it is our hope to locate Asian/Asian Pacific
American actors
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TELEVISION ACTOR POLL
Our monthly polls' purpose is to
communicate and reflect the most popular and visionary film within
the APA communities. If you feel that your film should be included,
contact us at jql@earthlink.net
and we will consider your project for an upcoming poll.
Listed on the right are some successful
films from the fast-emerging Asian American Cinema.
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PARMINDER
JOINS E.R
Parminder Nagra, the 27-year-old British actress
who starred in the sleeper hit Bend it Like Beckham, will make her
ER debut in the fall of 2003 and joined Ming Na as the Asian Pacific
American members of the top-rated television program..
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WB'S"BLACK
SASH" W/RUSSELL WONG,
appeared on the 2002-2003 television
season. This production was packaged by Rob Kim/UTA and represented
all the creators of "Black Sash" (Robert Kamen/writer/creator/executive
producer, Dylan Sellers/Co-Creator, and Tollin/Robbins Productions
- Executive Producers) - along with the two lead actresses - Sarah
Carter and Missy Peregrym. Unfortunately, this program lasted only
four episodes.
BASKETBALL
DIPLOMACY: FROM MAO TO YAO
National Geographic Ultimate Explorer host Lisa
Ling scored a rare interview
(on her first tv appearance since leaving "The View")
with NBA superstar Yao
Ming in Shanghai to explore China's most famous export while
unraveling a multifaceted cultural tale about China.
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DIVERSITY IS DORMANT
Despite persistent scrutiny of network and studio hiring practices
by the DGA, directing opportunities on top TV series continue to
be few and far between for women and minority
directors, according to a new DGA study.
The
study, which examined the hiring practices of the top 40 TV
series airing on the Big Four broadcast networks in the 2002-03
season, revealed that for a third consecutive year, Caucasian male
directors helmed more than 80% of the episodes of top comedy and
drama series airing on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.
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The fast-growing (61% growth since 1990 exceeding Hispanic
growth) and coveted media-buying
Asian
American viewers are confounding media planners' attempts to build
advertising schedules that can effectively reach them. The main reason
is that Asian Americans comprise distinct subsets, each with its own culture
and customs-not to mention different languages. Asian Americans have largely
been ignored as a distinct media target by many media planners because
of their disparate media choices - Chinese: 23%, Filipino: 17%, Indian:
16%, Vietnamese: 11%, Korean: 10% and Japanese: 7%.
Top-rated shows such as ''Friends'' and ''CSI'' have index 15% below the
U.S. average in reaching Asian Americans - while animated sitcoms- especially
''The Simpsons,'' ''King of the Hill'' and ''Futurama'' have index 16%
over the U.S. average - along with favorite programs such as fantasy/occult
shows such as ''Buffy'' and ''Charmed'' or awards shows and beauty pageants.
NBC has the greatest weekly reach (43 %) among Asian
Americans, Fox has the best index (98) relative to the U.S. average, CBS
has a 28% weekly reach and a 69 index to the U.S. average, appears to
be the worst place to reach Asians. The viewership tend to be clustered
heavily in a few key markets, especially on the West and East coasts.
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EVENT REVIEWS |
| April
2004 - East West Players' 39th edition of their Annual Visionary
Awards Gala was a well-planned celebration of the organization's
past achievements and its hopes for the future. Amy Hill and Tamilyn
Tomita hosted the program that honored the efforts of Tia Carrere
(actress), B.D. Wong (actor), Chay Yew (playwright) and Scott Nagatani
(music director). The night's atmosphere was set-up by the music
from Broadway's musical theater heyday from the past that emanated
Nathan Wang's 38th Anniversary Orchestra. The presenters included
Kelly Hu (Tia Carrere), Marlee Matlin (B.D. Wong), Gordon Davidson
(Chay Yew) and Emily Kuroda/Amy Hill (Scott Nagatani). The performances
of Dat Phan (comedian) and Harlemm Lee (singer) provided ample evidence
that there is great talents waiting to be embraced by the general
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manufactures television comedy in drab, institutional rooms like
this one every year. But the rooms have not produced a wildly popular
sitcom in more than five years, since the debut of "Will &
Grace" in 1998. It is one of only three such droughts in television
history, a dry spell that has cost the television industry millions
upon millions in unrealized profits while prompting dire pronouncements
that the network sitcom — a staple since "I Love Lucy"
more than 50 years ago — is dying.
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There are
countless other young actresses hanging out at Sky Bar, sending out 50
head shots a day, and they can't get an agent to return their calls. Would-be
screenwriters nurse their hopes sipping quadruple espressos on Melrose
and Sunset with laptops open on cafe tables, trying hard to look cool
while pounding out yet another rewrite of a scene that probably no studio
executive with the authority to do anything about it will ever see.
But it's not
easy to get a break and survive in Hollywood — to get that crucial
foot in the door in one of the most cloistered businesses in the world.
You've got to e-mail resumés, fax resumés, compose cover
letters that don't get ignored, shell out close to a hundred bucks to
buy the Hollywood Creative Directory so you know whom to call and where,
but your phone just isn't ringing. You're calling, writing, interviewing,
sending thank-you notes, following up on any lead you can find, yet you're
watching reruns of "Mannix" on Tivo at 3 in the afternoon instead
of working on a movie set.
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There
are a million stories in the naked city. The trouble is, few of
them ever get published — and fewer still help pay the rent.
Agent Ken Sherman explained, the job of a writer has changed:
Now even high-minded novelists have to hang up their insecurities
and sell, sell, sell.
"You've
got to find ways of getting out there and promoting yourself,"
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You must be
aggressive and tenacious, but how much is too much? What is calling too
many times? How can you consistently keep your name on the desks of agents
and executives without their telling their underlings, "Oh, no. Not
her again. Tell her tell her I'm in Guam. Tell her I'm dead. Just get
rid of her!" Barring insanity, where is the fine line between persistence
and harassment?
Manager-producer
J.C. Spink advises learning the interests of a person you're targeting,
then sending a gift. "There's a famous story," he relates, of
someone "who kept calling film producer Brian Grazer and finally
sending him a surfboard because he knew Brian was an avid surfer. And
Brian took a meeting with him." But Spink advises against pushiness.
"The worst thing you can do is call every day. Just because you're
suddenly on someone's radar doesn't mean that you start harassing them."
Interesting
Facts: A studio will often insert a provision in a director's
contract requiring the filmmaker to pay over-budget penalties. This is
particularly true when a director has two of Hollywood's most coveted
perks: the creative control of final-cut authority and a share in what
is called "dollar-one gross" — that is, the film's profit
before the studio recovers its costs.
WHINING
IS NOT BEING EFFECTIVE
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BANNED
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Some shows and movies that have been pulled because of ethnic
stereotyping include: |
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*"Amos
and Andy." The TV show, which was supposed to be set in Harlem,
aired for two seasons in the 1950s. The reruns eventually were
pulled after complaints that the characters--usually seen bumbling
around or talking with an accent--unfairly portrayed African Americans.
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*"Speedy
Gonzales." The Cartoon Network yanked the "fastest mouse
in all of Mexico" off the air last year because of concerns
over the portrayal of Speedy's friends, who were always taking
siestas and often smoked and stole things. The cartoons were put
back on when Latinos protested that they wanted them back. |
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*"Song
of the South." The 1946 Disney film was never released on
home video in the United States because of concerns that the film
made slavery look pleasant. |
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That's why director
Warrington
Hudlin, who co-founded the Black Filmmakers Foundation, counsels that
group's members not to bitch and moan, but rather to constructively engage
Hollywood, convincing execs that hiring minority talent is simply smart
business.
"It's
a matter of whining not being effective," he says. "If you're
going to make a difference, that's not the way to go... The people who
are making the decisions are operating in their own self- interest."
DEFINITION
OF A "STEREOTYPE"
One
way to define the term "stereotype"
is as a "loaded image," in other words, and image that is
associated with a set of meanings and generalities. Thus, a racial
stereotype is an image imposed on a racial group that defines that
racial group according to a generality or a set of generalities become
associated with an image and become stereotype? It occurs through repetition.
The
advertising medium is designed to persuade consumers to buy, and to do
so it must elicit particular emotions and ideas from within the consumer
to influence him or her to buy. Stereotype
can be used to elicit such emotions and ideas, whether or not the stereotypes
have any logical connection to the product or service being advertised
(in this case, depictions seen in the media such as film, television,
advertising, etc.).
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The
ASIA
CHANNEL is an integrated media brand that combines
the best qualities of cable television and the Internet to serve
Asian Americans.
The
ASIA
CHANNEL was founded in 2002, in order to bring a
modern, contemporary, & positive representation of today's
issues to the
underserved Asian American market. This new cable television network
will be coming soon to your home, featuring music, talk, variety,
news, movies, sports and arts. |
It
has been written that "Gender, race and class stereotypes of
Asian Americans in the media, especially those depicted in popular movies,
give the impression of what Asian Americans are really like to other Americans
as well as to Asian Americans themselves.
From
the exaggerated depictions of exotic, sex-hungry Asian women to the gangster-involved,
sexually abusive characteristics of Asian men, movie producers perpetuate
the gender, race and class inequalities of Asian Americans by allowing
these demonizing Asian characteristics to appear over and over in their
box office movies. Examples of such characters appear in popular Asian-American
movies such as The Year of the Dragon (1985), The Joy Luck Club (1993),
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), and Return to Paradise (1998). "
INTERESTING 2004 FACTS
Of the 35 new network series, the breakdown is 17 dramas, 12 comedies and 6 reality series. Last fall, there were 36 new series in total - 19 comedies, 17 dramas and no new reality.
Historically, there has never been this many reality series debuting in the fall.
For the first time in 55 years, Saturday will feature no new or returning ongoing original scripted programming.
Entering season 15, NBC's Law & Order is just 5 years short of tying Gunsmoke as the longest running regularly scheduled drama in the history of television.
At 15 seasons, Fox's The Simpsons has now been on the air for one year longer than the second longest-running sitcom in the history of television, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriett. Prior to The Simpsons, The Flintstones at six years was the longest-running animated comedy in primetime.
Entering season 9, King of the Hill is the second-longest animated comedy in the history of television.
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