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APA & MEDIA NEWS
SHELLY MORITA SUES JON PETERS
Shelly Morita, a former personal assistant, has sued "Superman Returns" producer Jon Peters, alleging she was forced to quit her job because he sexually harassed her, including exposing himself to her and her 3-year-old daughter.
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APAMC'S REPORT
The Asian Pacific American Media Coalition (APAMC) says opportunities for starring roles on prime-time shows for Asian Pacific American (APA) actors have improved slightly over the past year on the four major networks - ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox.
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KAREN NARASAKI INTERVIEW
Well, we're very excited to do this study. It's called "Lights, Camera, and Too Little Action." We've been working on the issue of where are the Asian Americans in popular media, particularly on prime-time television.
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THE HATCHET MAN (UNCOMFORTABLE "ORIENTAL" PIC)
Oriental Hollywood excesses like The Hatchet Man make for rather uncomfortable viewing today, even when directed by William Wellman. The bizarre "Oriental" makeup of Occidental stars Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young simply gets in the way of the message, especially when contrasted to such genuine Asian supporting players as Toshia Mori and Willie Fung, both briefly spotted skulking about in the background.
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ROSIE'S "CHING-CHONG"
"The use of the distorted phrases is insulting to the Chinese and Chinese-Americans, and gives the impression that they are a group that is substandard to English-speaking people." (AAJA) But Rosie's rep thinks they just don't get it: "I certainly hope that one day they will be able to grasp her humor."
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ENRIQUE & ANNA WED
According to America's Us Weekly magazine, Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova wed in a low-key beach ceremony in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in front of family and a few close friends.
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LOCATION OF BABEL - JAPAN
Adding a further layer of cultural inaccessibility, the main character in the Japanese part of Babel is deaf-mute suggesting a pernicious and near- insurmountable linguistic and cultural barrier between Asia and the rest of the spaces in the film.
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CAMILLE CHEN ON "PLAYHOUSE 60"
Camille Chen went from commercials and guest roles to landing a coveted re-occuring spot on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, where she plays a featured player on the show-within-a-show and gets to share screentime with such TV veterans as Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford, and DL Hughley.
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STEFANI'S "HARAJUKU GIRLS"
The (Harajuku) Girls silently accompanied her on photo shoots and to public appearances, and subsequently appeared on her tour. Stefani regarded the Girls, all of whom looked as if they had come straight off the streets of the capital city's hip Harajuku district, as a figment of her imagination brought to life in a culturally positive manner . . . Korean-American comedian Margaret Cho publicly decried them as ''a minstrel show.''
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RODNEY WOO'S DIVERSE CHURCH
Rodney Woo, pastor of Wilcrest Baptist Church in Houston, baptizes Chris Smith as Mr. Smith's fiancée, Javandia Elder, waits her turn. Before that 2002 event, he'd been exhausted by his long effort to turn a declining, nearly all-white congregation into a stable, thoroughly multiracial one with people coming from 25 nations.
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GIRLS OF "GRANT AVENUE" (SUZUKI/UMEKI)
The swivel hips belong to Singer Pat Suzuki, and, like Miyoshi, the chubby Nisei is bouncing through her first Broadway part. Whatever else may be said for or against Flower Drum Song, it brings to Broadway two of the most endearing stars in many a season—surrounded by a fascinating Oriental chorus line that will give the most jaded Stage-Door Johnnies a new incentive.
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KOREAN ADOPTIONS / AMERICAN PARENTS
Families from different corners of New Jersey share a thread in that they have all adopted children from Korea and they come to the school to pass on the culture to their children at the Lord's Children Culture School that is runned at the First Presbyterian Church of Bernardsville,
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ASIAN GLOBAL ETHNO-HUBS
Any map of L.A. would reveal "Asian global ethno-hubs" in the central city (Koreatown, Thai Town, Chinatown, Little Tokyo) and in the San Gabriel Valley, where Little Taipei includes ethnic Chinese from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, as well as native-born American Chinese. Farther south, Cambodians in Long Beach are organizing for a Little Cambodia not far from Little India in Artesia, or Little Saigon in Garden Grove.
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GENE WANG'S "AMERICAN-BORN CHINESE"
All Jin Wang wants is to fit in (in Gene Wang's graphic novel) ... When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese-American student at his school. Jocks and bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with an all-American girl...
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MINDY KALING'S WORDS
Thanks to the multitalented Mindy Kaling, more Americans are now educated about Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. In addition to playing Kelly Kapour on NBC's "The Office," she has been invited to be a guest writer on "Saturday Night Live" and is writing a sorority comedy for Fox Atomic.
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ASIAN FETISH
His Asian fetish actually originated in high school where he met a Vietnamese American girl named Ann. Although born in the United States, Ann was raised in Indonesia until about a year before Dan met her. She spoke English well, but not perfectly. The relationship ended in a pretty standard way, too: Dan suggested sex, Ann resisted, things spiraled. There was an ultimatum and then a breakup, and then—classic—threats of suicide.
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JAZZ FROM THE PHILIPPINES
When Charmaine Clamor's (a Filipina, born in the provincial town of Subic-Zambales) warm, luscious contralto slips into a rhythmically seductive version of "I'm in the Mood for Love" or purrs through the tender lyrics of "The Very Thought of You," there's no doubt that a first-rate jazz talent is present.
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DIVERSITY IN L.A.'S PRIVATE SCHOOLS
Despite their reputations as elitist enclaves of rich white kids, some independent schools are increasingly reaching out to to transform their student bodies to reflect the world outside their doors. Cate sophomore Edderic Ugaddan, 15, a Filipino American from New Jersey, said that seeing other Asians on campus was a deciding factor in choosing the school. One Asian father spoke of his discomfort in social settings when he seemed to be the "invisible man" to whom no one would speak unless he asked a question.
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LITTLE SAIGON'S ORNATE ARCHWAYS
After more than a decade of contentious debate, community leaders are moving forward with plans to erect ornate archways at the entrances to Little Saigon, the bustling heart of Orange County's Vietnamese American community. The original bridge was proposed by Frank Jao - the "Godfather of Little Saigon."
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DALAI LAMA HAS "IT"
Paul Ekman - the UC San Francisco psychology professor was as gnarly as an old oak, with a face hard-chiseled by a lifelong struggle with impulsive anger. All that changed one spring day in 2000 after a brief exchange with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. "He held my hands while we talked," Ekman recalled, "and I was filled with a sense of goodness and a unique total body sensation that I have no words to describe."
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7'9" SUN MING MING & NBA
Sun Ming Ming is no guard — at nearly 7 feet 9 inches, he would be the tallest player in N.B.A. history. But the pituitary tumor that led to his extraordinary size is threatening his life and keeping him away from a pro basketball career.
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INDIAN TRIBES PARTNERING W/CHINESE BUSINESSES
The Chickasaw Nation, among the most prosperous tribes in the United States thanks to its 18 casinos plans to bring the Chinese to Indian country. The tribe recently joined American investors and China's oldest automaker to resurrect the MG, the sporty British icon, at an abandoned military base here. The venture shows how some Indian tribes are reaching beyond their territories to take advantage of globalization.
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TONY CHING SIU-TUNG'S CHOREOGRAPHY
Thanks to his longtime partnership with Hong Kong action director Tony Ching Siu-Tung, Zhang Yimou's films often showcase jaw-dropping airborne stunt choreography. Using a combination of kung fu and wire work, known as "wire fu," in 2003's "Hero," actors sailed over Chinese landscapes in fluttering robes; in 2004's "House of Flying Daggers," police and military threw mid-air punches and kicks high above open fields and bamboo groves.
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MAUI'S LONG & WINDING ROAD
It's a lot more fun to watch the Hawaiian hit parade of waterfalls, taro fields and crashing waves than to glue your eyes to a strip of pavement so narrow it looks like it was meant for golf carts, not the Chevy Malibu we're renting.
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SAN FRANCISO'S "FRENCH QUARTER"
Just northeast of the swarming Union Square shopping area, an enclave of convivial restaurants spills off Bush Street into several table-filled alleys festooned with lights. It has picked up the moniker French Quarter, and I wish it hadn't. The words evoke the happy din of New Orleans, with streets full of cup-toting revelers. That's not what this scene is.
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