03.31.08
Posted in FALLOUT CENTRAL Podcast at 8:32 pm by admin
(** This is a partial transcript of the Fallout Central Interview with Benson Lee.)
William: It’s with great pleasure that we welcome to the Fallout Central Podcast– Benson Lee. How are you doing?
Benson Lee: I’m great! Thank you for having me.
William: Give us a sense of where you’re coming from. I read that you were born in Toronto, raised outside of Philly, you had your undergraduate studies spread out over three different universities– F.I.T., NYU, and the University of Hawaii. At what point in that trajectory did you decide to pursue this project?
Benson Lee: Much later, actually. After I graduated from the University of Hawaii, I went to Europe and I lived there for a little while, and in Paris and in London– trying to get some more life experience as well as Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Uncategorized at 10:20 am by jj_de_la_cruz
Yeah, I said it… NO, 21 is NOT a racist movie.
21 is not exactly racist. The re-working of the details to appeal to a broader audience was not exactly racist either. The people who enjoyed the movie are not necessarily racist. Let’s be clear about that. These were simply business decisions. The film 21 is probably a decent movie, despite what the critics have said.
However, the presuppositions upon which the casting decisions were made were indeed RACIST: These business decisions were based upon the presupposition that box-office success of a film is achieved when you have white leads with Asian supporting characters, rather than Asian leads with white supporting characters.
Have you thought for a minute about why that is, and what that means in a broader, social sense? Have you thought about what that could mean for your children? Is that something you’re willing to accept? Pause here, and think about that for a minute…
I’ll tell you what’s racist… people who accept a racist presupposition, and proceed to profit from it: William S. Beasley, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Ryan Kavanaugh, Brett Ratner, Kevin Spacey. That’s why they don’t deserve your money.
So, go ahead and see 21 if you want. Just DO NOT pay for it. They don’t deserve your money.
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Posted in History at 9:56 am by william_lee_intern
More than 100 veterans, students and others remembered the veterans of the Korean conflict Sunday during the Korean War Veterans Memorial Dedication at Four Mile Cove Ecological Preserve in Cape Coral. The group dedicated the memorial. The ceremony included speeches from Cape Coral Mayor Eric Feichthaler, Brig. Gen. Yonghyun Jeong of the Korean Delegation of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, and local retired educator Talsop Lee.
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Posted in Culture at 9:38 am by william_lee_intern
As the Asian population continues to expand in the Chicago area - it grew 15 percent in Cook County from 2000 to 2006 - funeral homes have joined hotels, restaurants and other businesses in accommodating their needs. Ten to 15 specialty funeral companies opened in the Chicago area in recent years, mostly to accommodate Hindu, Muslim, Korean and other Asian cultures, according to Stephanie Kann, program director of Worsham College of Mortuary Science in Wheeling.
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Posted in Media and Entertainment at 9:22 am by william_lee_intern
Oscar-winning director Ang Lee will be back at the University of Illinois for the 10th annual Ebertfest. The event is hosted by the noted film critic and Lee’s fellow Illini graduate Roger Ebert.
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Posted in China at 9:13 am by william_lee_intern
Renowned Chinese agricultural scientist Yuan Longping, with film actress Gong Li and action star Jackie Chan sitting by his sides, at the “You Bring Charm to the World” awards ceremony in Beijing on Saturday, March 29, 2008. The three were among a dozen individuals or groups honored at the annual awards as influential Chinese people of the past year.
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Posted in History at 8:59 am by william_lee_intern
A little more than 65 years ago, 2,600 young Japanese-American soldiers, who had all volunteered to join the Army’s segregated unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team , stood in formation in new khakis bedecked with orange leis and gas masks hanging from their shoulders in front of Iolani Palace just before they left for the battlefields of Europe. Today, when Lt. Col. Michael Peeters, who commands the Army Reserve unit that took the 442nd’s battle flag into Iraq three years ago, calls the roll, nearly 300 of the same soldiers will march into a Waikiki banquet hall.
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Posted in Fun Facts at 8:43 am by william_lee_intern
Before the Internet, photo albums, diaries, scrapbooks and home movies represented the only ways that one person or one family could make order of their world and share it with others. Ishizuka’s work allows us to see a multi-hued and multifaceted history that serves as a bulwark against those who would gloss over or forget its many nuances. Taking that laudable lifetime project to a higher plane, Mining the Home Movie shows that people with similar visions are working in Mexico, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand and other countries to do the same.
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Posted in Politics at 8:34 am by william_lee_intern
According to the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), only two of the 86 women serving in the 110th U.S. Congress are Asian Americans; only 30 of the 1,741 women state legislators serving nationwide are Asian-American women. To help Asian-American women learn about the basics of U.S. governments and politics, CAWP launched in 2007 a one-day program called Rising Stars, aimed primarily at women living in New Jersey. Nowadays, Asian-American women are really JUMPING INTO POLITICS.
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