AA VOTERS COUNT IN L.A. MAYORAL ELECTION
When people
talk about the L.A. mayoral race, four voter blocs are almost
always discussed: African Americans, Latinos, Jews, and Republicans.
Yet one of the largest groups in the city is rarely mentioned:
Asian Americans.
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NO YELLOW @ OSCARS
With the Black & Hispanic communities receiving eight nominations
in six major categories,
there's a grand total of zero nominations in those same categories
for Asian Pacifics.
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ASIANWEEK/PHILLIP CHUNG'S HOLLYWOOD RESOLUTIONS
1) Medical tv shows with APA regulars, 2) Realize there's a difference between Asian Pacifics & Asian Pacific Americans, 3) Give us an APA superhero, 4) Saturday Night Live APA cast member & 5) No more William Hung!
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ASIANWEEK/PHILLIP CHUNG'S HOLLYWOOD BLUNDERS
AsianWeek's Phillip Chung provides his list of Hollywood's 25 Worst APA blunders. Click HERE to read part 2.
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HIP-HOP RACISM TOWARDS ASIANS
Hip-hop has always been outraged at white-on-black racism,
but rather less enlightened in its attitude towards Asians.
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RMO FINANCES PETER CHAN'S HK MUSICAL & TV SERIES
Ruddy
Morgan Organization, one of the producers of Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby," is producing
Applause Pictures' $10 million musical "Perhaps Love"
that's directed by Peter
Chan and the Dennis Hopper-starrer Flatland.
"Flatland"
is an action tv series in Shanghai. Read Andre Morgan's interview by clicking HERE.
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MIRA NAIR'S "THE NAMESAKE"
The $9.6 million film is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri's best-selling novel, which Mira happened to read on a recent flight and bought the rights within a week. Mira wrote the screenplay with Sooni Taraporewala.
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HOW PREJUDICE ARE YOU?
Many Americans believe they are not prejudiced. Now a new test provides powerful evidence that a majority of us really are. Take the test and find out where you stand.
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GARY LOCKE JOINS SEATTLE LAW FIRM
Former Gov. Gary Locke has landed a lucrative, high-profile job with the Seattle law firm Davis Wright Tremaine as a partner with its China and governmental-relations practice groups.
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MIKE HONDA - 1ST POLITICAL VICE-CHAIR
Representative Mike Honda of California made history when he was elected Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the highest office ever held by an Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) in a major political party.
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CRESTOR NOT GOOD FOR ASIAN PATIENTS
The Food and Drug Administration urged doctors to use caution (started at the lowest approved dose - 5 milligrams a day) in prescribing the cholesterol drug Crestor to patients of Asian heritage.
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MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUICIDE
Iris Chang's bestselling book catapulted her into the spotlight as spokeswoman for a movement demanding reparations from Japan for World War II atrocities. Her suicide has made her a symbol for another cause: the fight to end a longstanding stigma against mental illness in Asian-American communities, which leads many people to delay getting treatment and suffer in isolation.
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LEA HOSTS ASIAN PACIFIC CATHOLIC DOCUMENTARY
That strong sense of her Catholic faith was one of the reasons Lea Salonga was chosen to host Hallmark Channel's "Harmony In Faith" on "The World of Faith and Values."
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SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival features Alice Wu's Saving Face, introspective on Steven Okazaki's 25 year career, Curtis Choy's What's Wrong with Frank Chin, Adam Del Deo's The Year of the Yao and others.
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LA SALLE ACQUIRES A TAJ MAHAL
Former ER star Eriq La Salle's Humble Journey Films has acquired film rights to John Shors' "Beneath a Marble Sky: A Novel of the Taj Mahal" and has partnered with India-based Cinemaya Media to develop the project,
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EUGENIA YUAN IN "MAIL ORDER BRIDE"
Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland push the limits of comedy in their confrontational mockumentaries where Eugenia Yuan plays Lichi - the mail-order bride.
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NICOLAS CAGE & ALICE KIM SELL MALIBU HOME
Nicolas Cage and Alice Kim have sold their Malibu home for about $10 million. The Oscar-winning actor, who owns a home in Bel-Air and a house in New Orleans, had owned the Malibu home since 1997, when he purchased it for close to its $3.6-million asking price.
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OLIVER WANG, HIP-HOP & ASIAN AMERICANS
Oliver Wang went on to say that the only reason why Asians were drawn to hip-hop was because of the music. He also said that "hip-hop is the most democratic music because it doesn't take the same skill as playing classical music."
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ALEXANDER PAYNE & SANDRA OH DIVORCE
Director Alexander Payne and wife Sandra Oh have mutually decided to separate. They will remain friends." The couple met five years ago and married in 2003.
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WHAT POLLS OF MINORITIES MISS
The media's knowledge of African Americans, Asians and Latinos is woefully lacking. Opinion polls break out minority-group results from general populations, but the meaningfulness of the findings is moot at best.
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STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S RISKS
Indeed, "risk" has never been part of the personal lexicon of one of America's premier wordsmiths who, more than any of his peers or even his predecessors, has so single-mindedly pursued his maverick artistic vision without regard to popular taste.
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HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL
Handsome Boy Modeling School, aka Chest Rockwell and Nathaniel Merriweather, aka Prince Paul and Dan The Automator, have announced the dates of their upcoming tour with Buck 65 and K-OS.
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INOUE & BALDWIN TRAINING WITH OPPEGARD
Rena Inoue and John Baldwin Jr. of Santa Monica, who won the 2004 U.S. pairs title, followed their coach, Jill Watson to Arizona. Unhappy in their new surroundings, they're training in Lakewood with Peter Oppegard (who is married to Karen Kwan, sister of Michelle Kwan and a coach herself.
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BOLLYWOOD ON TCM & ED LITWAK
Movies with Indian themes have been getting more theatrical distribution in the United States via Starz Encore, Ed Litwak/Ethnic Broadcasting Co.'s Bollywood Channel and Turner Classic Movies - a seemingly strange home for Indian musical melodramas.
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ROSALIND CHAO IN "WHAT DREAMS MAY COME" (1998)
Heaven isn't a vacuum (and hence there are a few more characters that actually float in an out of the picture. Rosalind Chao is tour guide Leona (or is she), who provides the key to her 19th century consciousness city portrayed in the film.
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PUBLIC GOV. AGENCIES COMMIT TO DIVERSITY
Top executives of 11 public agencies signed a pledge reaffirming their institutions' commitment to racial diversity.
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MICHELLE YEOH SAYS OK TO GEISHA CASTING
Former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh says that her upcoming film "Memoirs of a Geisha" should be received well in Japan, even though many of the main roles are played by ethnic Chinese actresses.
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CA'S APIA COMMUNITIES
Report reveals that thousands of APIs in California live in poverty, face language barriers, and dwell in overcrowded housing.
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fFRANK FONG'S BATTLE FOR VA BENEFITS
It took 48 years for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
to concede that a plane crash scarred his left eye and eventually
took his sight. He's still seeking back pay for the years
1950-1997, when the VA refused to acknowledge his blindness.
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"DARNA" BECOMES A TV SERIES
Asia's first and greatest Super-Heroine- DARNA - becomes a TV series. Darna is a strong, beautiful, sexy woman with superstrength and the power of flight.
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INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE TAKEI
Actor George Takei is a real legend. As a cast member of "Star Trek: The Original Series," Takei basically laid the foundation for positive portrayals of Asians in motion pictures.
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CHILDREN & TRADITIONALISTS
Children are the world's most ardent traditionalists. They like things stable and categorized. They want to know what girls can do and what girls can't do. Television, like it or not, teaches them a lot of these rules.
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COLOR CHANGE
Bernie Mac is the new Spencer Tracy. James Earl Jones is the new Henry Fonda. Ving Rhames is the new Telly Savalas. And Denzel Washington is the new Laurence Olivier. Does that make Ashton Kutcher the new Sidney Poitier? Well, maybe not. But there's no avoiding the race-reversal trend that's happening in movies, theater and TV these days.
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GLORIA TREVI - BREAKING TRADITIONS & STEREOTYPES
The recently freed Mexican pop star who breaks stereotypes and controversies is about to perform on an "American Idol"-type television program, with contestants almost as young and hungry for fame as the underage women she was accused of luring.
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HONOR KILLINGS
Respect is the motive behind honor killing. The honor of the family and the honor of the brothers are fixed upon how the sister's perceived.
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STANLEY KUBRICK OF ANIME
When Katsuhiro Otomo's "Steamboy" opens, it likely will be received much differently from his last anime film to be screened outside Japan that started an animation revolution with fans such asQuentin Tarantino, James Cameron and the Wachowskis.
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BICKERING: BLOODSPORT OF SIBLINGS
You should worry if your kids aren't squabbling, say the experts. Home is the lab where children can try out behaviors.
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SHOW THEM YOUR 'TAKE ME HOME' FACE
So much was at stake in the search for foster children gathered at the William Clark Mansion to have their portraits taken by professional photographers for the state's Heart Gallery, a planned exhibit of more than 300 children available for adoption, some of whom have had about as many foster homes as birthdays.
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STRESS = HEART PROBLEMS
The longer hours, faster pace and insecurity typical of many new jobs is taking a toll on workers' hearts.
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MIYUKI MIYABE'S SHADOW FAMILY
Miyuki Miyabe is a prolific and award-winning mystery writer in Japan, but her true subject is the mystery of modern Japanese identity.
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N.E.R.D. CALLS IT QUITS
N.E.R.D. (No one Ever Really Dies), the band formed by blockbuster producers the Neptunes, have broken up. Pharrell emphasized that he and production partner Chad Hugo will continue their work as the Neptunes and on good terms with third N.E.R.D. member Shay.
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BRANDED ENTERTAINMENT - CARAT
Carat Americas is launching Carat Entertainment, a new business unit that will offer branded entertainment opportunities for Carat clients and be headed by Michael Yudin. He will report to Andy Donchin, executive vp, director of national broadcast.
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HA JIN WINS PEN/FAULKNER PRIZE
Ha Jin, has joined an elite club in becoming a two-time winner of the prestigious PEN/Faulkner award and its $15,000 prize, the largest American literary award.
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REVIVAL OF THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE
A 1983 survey estimated that only 1,500 people remained in Hawaii who could speak it, most of them elderly. Today there are probably 6,000 to 8,000 Hawaiian language speakers throughout the state, most of them under 30.
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GORILLAZ NEW C.D.
Damon Albarn partners With Danger Mouse for the follow-up to their 6 million wordwide-selling debut sophomore ("Demon Days) to be released on May 24.
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SANDRA OH'S GREY ANATOMY
Sandra Oh, who played a freewheeling single mom in "Sideways," gets tough as a surgical intern in the ABC's medical drama.
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CORPORATE INSURANCE FOR AA COMPANIES
Ed Chin is a third-generation Chinese American "raised hell" at the insurance company where he worked in the 1960s after noticing that Asians were being overcharged for insurance products. Not seeing progress, Chin quit his job and in 1979 started AIS Corp. in Oakland.
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BROADWAY LOST ITS VOICE TO AMERICAN IDOL
The style of vocalizing that is rewarded on "American Idol" - by its panel of on-air judges and by the television audience that votes on the winners - is both intensely emotional and oddly impersonal.
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IMMIGRANTS FINDING THE GOOD LIFE BACK HOME
Chiang is among a growing number of immigrants who are returning to countries such as China, India and Vietnam to live, lured by economic booms and investment opportunities - the same things that brought them, or their parents, to the United States.
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WHAT IS HIP-HOP BY JEFF CHANG
Hip-hop organizes the way that we view the world--everything from what kinds of shoes we buy and how we lace them up to how we look at political candidates and whether we vote or not.
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INSIGHTS FROM YO-YO MA
On his newest--and 88th album, Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon, the world-renowned cellist collaborates with musicians along the ancient trade route that linked China and the West.
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LIKE LAMBS TO SLAUGHTER
Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel, "Never Let Me Go," is an elegiac, deceptively lovely book about boarding-school mates at an institution called Hailsham, in rural England.
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DANIEL DAE KIM IN "THE CAVE"
Plot: Deep in the Romanian forest, a team of scientists stumbles upon the ruins of a 13th century Abbey. On further inspection, they make a startling discovery - the Abbey is built over the entrance to a giant underground cave system.
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GONG LI IN MIAMI VICE REMAKE
Chinese superstar Gong Li, in addition to a role in the forthcoming "Red Dragon" prequel "The Lecter Variation," will play a role in Michael Mann's "Miami Vice" movie.
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GONG LI & WONG KAR-WAI IN "EROS"
Synopsis: It's 1963, a hot summer afternoon. Zhang (Chang Chen), the tailor's apprentice, is very nervous. It's the first time he's ever been asked to fit a customer by himself. And the client is one of Master Jin's most important and demanding-Miss Hua (Gong Li), a famous courtesan.
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BLACK & ASIAN WOMEN W/DEGREES EARN MORE
Black and Asian women with bachelor's degrees earn slightly more than similarly educated white women, and white men with four-year degrees make more than anyone else.
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INTERVIEW WITH JOHNNIE TO
Johnnie
To Kei-fung is probably the hardest working
man in Hong Kong show business woring on many critically
acclaimed Hong Kong/Asian films.
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"VILLAGE" STAR REUNITES WITH SHYMALAN
Bryce Dallas Howard (Ron Howard's daughter) is continuing an M. Night Shyamalan tradition by reteaming with the filmmaker for his next thriller "The Lady in the Water."
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