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Miyoshi Umeki was a Japanese-American actress and singer who smashed prejudices when she became the first Asian actress to win an Oscar. Then she smashed expectations when she threw it in the bin.
Demure, submissive and erotic, Suzie Wong is that bigger-than-life stereotype, that caricature Asian women grew up with in the U.S. We may have also secretly hoped to play that geisha-like image to ...
Arthur Godfrey and His Friends is an American television variety show hosted by Arthur Godfrey. The hour-long series aired on CBS Television from January 1949 to June 1957, then again as a half-hour ...
Bill Bixby TV shows may have been limited to a total of five series — not counting guest appearances — but over a 20-year period he brought an everyman essence to his characters and an attention to ...
TanChun is a traveling film director and screenwriter who believes in positive Asian representation in Hollywood. She aspires to create more stories in Western media that give Asian actors a chance to ...
How much do you know about Rodgers & Hammerstein? Before working together, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had separately built distinguished careers. Richard Rodgers had been in a writing ...
K-pop’s first appearance on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart was in 2009, when the Wonder Girls’ “Nobody” hit No. 76. Fifty years earlier, in 1959 The Kim Sisters (Sue, Aija, and Mia) from Korea made ...
When it was released, in 1961, Flower Drum Song set two remarkable – and remarkably depressing – records. On the one hand, it was the first Hollywood film to feature a majority Asian cast in a ...
Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...