“When the house is going up in flames, does what’s on the TV matter?†That’s the question I kept asking myself as I sat down to write this year-end column. In October, Michael Luo, then an editor for The New York Times, was accosted on the street by a woman yelling, “Go back to China!†[…]
ENTERTAINMENT RE-ORIENTED: A ‘Fresh’ take on the Asian American sitcom
“Fresh off the Boat,†the first sitcom with an all-Asian American cast since 1994’s “All American Girl,†is kind of like rocking a perm or making a martini, in that there’s a right way and wrong way to do it. The right way, is to just watch it as you would any other network sitcom […]
‘The Mentalist’s’ Tim Kang making a mark in Hollywood
It might be hard these days to find someone who has never seen Tim Kang’s face. The Korean American actor has appeared on “Chappelle’s Show,†“The Office,†“Monk,†“Law & Order,†and in the 2008 “Rambo†film. He was in a pivotal, highly memorable episode of the “The Sopranos†and is perhaps best known for […]
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