Dear Hollywood,
America is ready for a new Movie Star: Daniel Henney! He’s young, handsome and he already has an international fan base (remember, half your profits come from overseas these days). Best of all, he’s homegrown — from the heartland haven of Carson City, Michigan.
Here’s our new hero in a commercial with Academy Award-winner Gwyneth [...]
When is a commercial not entirely obnoxious? When it’s one of Toyota’s cool new ethnic-targeted websites.
Sure, they’re car ads disguised as entertainment, and I hate being played by advertisers. But I believe Toyota has crossed a line here — in the right direction. Their Asian-American movie website is as rich and useful as many “real” [...]
Amy Tan, SF-based author of
“The Joy Luck Club” novel and movie, will soon see another of her stories jump off the page: “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” by Tan opens the San Francisco Opera’s new season Sept. 15.
(Tan is hugging beloved Bay Area neighbor Rita Moreno in photo.)
How exciting! When was the last time you attended an [...]
Remember the weirdness of “Memoirs of a Geisha”? Chinese actresses playing Japanese archetypes (geishas) at a time when the two countries were at war (World War II), and doing it in English? It was like if Indians shot a Hindi-language Bollywood musical about the Holocaust and cast Christian German actors to play Jewish rabbis. Only “Memoirs” was [...]
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