Word: actor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of the skit's premise was to perpetuate base racial divisions. towards the end of the season, presumably in response to viewer complaints, the show introduced an extra character to the skit. Although he was also played by a white actor, the character was supposed to be a more handsome, intelligent, and articulate Asian. Whenever he came onscreen, there was a caption that read something like "Positive Ethnic Role Model." Clearly, the show's creators were aware that they were offending people. Their solution, however, was glib and insensitive, belittling valid anger with a ludicrously negative portrayal...
...particularly vicious stereotype appears in a new Pontiac ad. The ad features representatives from a variety of car manufacturers. When the fictional spokesman for Nissan--an Asian actor--stands up he blathers on in basically incomprehensible English. We are meant to see him not only as an enemy, but as a particular type of enemy. He is loud and boorish, all bug-eyes and buck teeth. It is a convenient way to deal with American fears, making Asians seem at once crude and oddly polite and subservient...
...movie, a young, geeky computer whiz (played by the same young, geeky actor in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and other assorted teen fantasies) breaks into a secret Pentagon computer and almost sets off World War III. This cinematic experience ends with a glorification of individual creativity--in the person of the computer geek and his loyal heroine (played by Ally Sheedy)--and a condemnation of technology gone wild--played by a renegade computer charmingly named Joshua...
...investments. The money was irreplaceable; like others of her Hollywood generation, the child woke up one morning to find that postwar America had outgrown its innocents. The features continued until she reached the age of 21. But Shirley was effectively finished at 17, the year she married actor John Agar, soon to begin his descent into violent alcoholism...
...show of strength that would have startled any alien bold enough to advance on Braga, a local fire chief sent two fire trucks roaring about in search of the outer-space cadets. The program, which had been announced well in advance, was intended as homage to Orson Welles. The actor, who had called his Mercury Theatre production a way of dressing up in a sheet and saying boo, would have enjoyed it hugely...