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BAAYORK LEE, YUKA TAKARA & PAUL TAM IN "CHORUS LINE"
This sturdy revival of "A Chorus Line" has everything going for it except the excitement of discovery, since it's pretty much the same show that opened on Broadway in 1975.
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VILLARAIGOSA'S APA MEMBERS ON ASIA TRIP
Villaraigosa's team of 50+ people who traveled with him on his 16-day tour through China, South Korea and Japan included Donald Tang, Christopher Pak, Ki Suh Park, Peter Woo, Bill Watanabe and Irene Hirano
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ORVILLE SCHELL HEAD ASIA SOCIETY
Orville Schell, a journalist and author who is one of the nation's top China experts, has been appointed director of the Asia Society's newly established Center on U.S.-China Relations,
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SPEAKING OUT - JOHN CHO
For me, I choose not to take a lot of Asian roles because of the way they're written, and I end up playing roles that were originally not written Asian. . . . I think you have to be willing to say no and not get the role changed. . . .if we want change, we have to take responsibility for our part as minority actors.
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LELAND WONG - CASE TURNING SALACIOUS
While receiving bribes from a company seeking a new port contract, former Hahn administration power broker alledgedly Leland Wong repeatedly sought to influence then-Deputy Mayor Troy Edwards by treating him to massages that included sexual favors.
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USC EMMANUEL MOODY'S GUIDING UNCLE - MICHAEL CHANG
Michael Chang grew up as the only Asian kid in a tough neighborhood. His father died of a stroke when he was young and ended up living with his sister, Young Sun & her 3 kids that were abandoned by her black husband Eugene Moody. Since he was 14, he took it upon himself to serve as her sister's youngest son's (Emmanuel Moody) father figure. He applied equal measures of empathy and firmness - along with toughness with an emphasis on Christianity.
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YOUNG JEAN LEE'S "SONGS OF A DRAGON"
Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven is a mildly amusing, but ultimately pointless, meditation on race and racism in America that was written and directed by Korean-American playwright Young Jean Lee. It's a loose framework cobbled together by chaos and overrun by nonsensical ideas.
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CONDO COMPLEX IN ALHAMBRA W/ASIAN INVESTORS
The (San Gabriel) valley's attractiveness to people of Asian heritage, including many with roots in China or Taiwan just evolved over several decades. The (new housing) development in part reflects the growing influx of Asian money and immigrants into the valley, which is running out of land for new development.
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KEANU REEVES NARRATES IN "THE GREAT WARMING"
Narrated by Alanis Morissette and Keanu Reeves, The Great Warming is a dramatic film about climate change that sweeps around the world to reveal how a changing climate is affecting the lives of people everywhere. It has been called "the best film about global warming ever shot."
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MELSON BACOS IS SENTENCED
Filipino American and Petty Officer 3rd Class Melson Bacos was sentenced Friday to one year in the brig after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and kidnapping in the death of an Iraqi man and agreed to testify against seven Marines charged with murder.
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COUNTDOWN TO 300 MILLION
It should come as no surprise that the once liberal baby boomers — who now constitute the core of middle-aged middle America — should be resistant to the country's new younger generation, increasingly made up of first- and second-generation Latin Americans and Asians.
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ARTESIA - DAIRIES TO "LITTLE INDIA"
Once a Portuguese-run dairy village, Artesia is now home to Southern California's largest Indian enclave. In the cultural and commercial district informally known as Little India, Hindi supplants English, saris are a wardrobe staple and fast food means samosas.
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TIGER WOODS' PROJECT A SUCCESS
Golf icon and Western High School grad Tiger Woods made an Orange County stop on Saturday to raise money for his new learning center in Anaheim. He said the center has become in eight months a fun, vibrant, tight-knit community where kids can't wait to walk through the doors.
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STARTING SUCCESSFUL HOME-BASED BUSINESSES
If you want to start a home business, ignore the home-business opportunity ads; there are no shortcuts to starting a successful home-based business. By following six steps, you'll end up with an idea for a home-based business that truly has the potential to succeed, bringing you the money and the satisfaction you've been dreaming of.
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VICTOR SIM MAKING SUCCESSFUL NOODLES
Since 1974, Union Foods - the Irvine company - has been making such packets, which take three minutes to turn boiling water into a primary food group for college students. But high costs and other problems sent Union Foods on its own steep plunge in recent years.
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KA LIQUOR OWNER AFRAID OF STREET GANGS
But in a neighborhood where street gangs cast a large shadow, the crackdown brought more anxiety than relief for the liquor store (Korean American) owner and his customers. "They (Korean American liquor store owners) found a solution to their problem, they found these guys, got photos and did their own investigation," Grace Yoo, executive director of the Korean American Coalition, said of the owner and his family. "But now that they've done it, they're in fear of their lives."
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DAVID KUO'S "TEMPTING FAITH"
David Kuo, who was the number two guy at the Office of Faith Based initiatives in the White House writes a scathing account of how the administration used Christians to grab and maintain power. Read his interview with Newsweek's Richard Wolfe by clicking HERE.
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CHO-LIANG LIN'S LEONARD BERNSTEIN INTEPRETATIONS
David Kuo, who was the number two guy at the Office of Faith Based initiatives in the White House writes a scathing account of how the administration used Christians to grab and maintain power.
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IRIS YAMASHITA / "LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA"
Clint Eastwood/Paul Haggis tapped Iris Yamashita, a novice who had come to Haggis' attention through Creative Artists Agency's Cathy Tarr. "I had absolutely no knowledge of the battle of Iwo Jima before my agent contacted me about this project," says Yamashita, a second-generation Japanese American with conversational knowledge of Japanese. "To prepare for the meetings I read a lot of books, watched a couple of History Channel segments, and rented 'The Sands of Iwo Jima' with John Wayne. I had also done a lot of research on Japan for my screenplay 'Traveler in Tokyo,' which is set on the eve of World War II."
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INDIAN-BORN MODEL/ACTRESS PADMA LAKSHMI - "TOP CHEF" HOST
Padma Lakshmi had a confession to make. "I hate reality TV, I have to tell you," said the new host of "Top Chef," Bravo's reality cooking competition. "I think a lot of it brings out the worst common denominator of the human spirit." But the Indian-born model and actress, perhaps best known for being married to Salman Rushdie, is satisfied that Season 2 of "Top Chef" won't contribute to the decline of modern culture. The reality series pits 15 up-and-coming chefs against one another in an intense culinary contest.
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REVIEW: JEFF ADACHI'S "THE SLANTED SCREEN"
Objective data and more sound bites from others besides male Asian Americans might have helped make the case. It's ironic to talk about needing more participants who are not Asian American men, but this well-researched film's influence can only increase as it reaches beyond that circle — to those who never thought there was a problem. (Read an interview with Jeff Adachi by clicking HERE.