Asian American news, views and other assorted things
“Harold & Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay” opens today and it’s my most anticipated movie of the year now that the new “Star Trek” has been pushed back to 2009. I know I’m not the only one who’s been waiting to see “Harold & Kumar.” Read the rest of this entry »
Turner Classic Movies is going to show a month-long series of movies examining images of Asians in June. It’s a extension of the network’s look at African American images and gay images it has aired during the past two years Read the rest of this entry »
Even with all the talk of new media and the Internet, there’s still some dinosaur-like thinking out there in the journalism world. A good example is a sports column by Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who laments about Major League Baseball playing games in Tokyo, “you know the guys who gave us Pearl Harbor.” Read the rest of this entry »
Dith Pran’s life was so extraordinary it could be have been a movie, and it was. Dith, who died Sunday at age 65, inspired “The Killing Fields,” which chronicled the bloody reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, during which an estimated 2 million died. Read the rest of this entry »
