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...more attracted to Asian women than to women of other races.Even so, he says, “if somebody says that he’s only attracted to Asian women, it’s not so much a fetish as a preference.”‘KUNG FU FIGHTER’Interracial dating is more problematic for Asian men, says Edward Y. Lee ’08, who is Korean American.Asian men do not typically date outside of their race because they are stereotypically viewed as “very un-masculine,” Lee says...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Color Line Cuts Through the Heart | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

...Kicking and Screaming "Emotion in Motion" [Feb. 6], on Jet Li's latest kung fu film, Fearless, ought to have noted that no matter how hard the moviemakers tried to make Li's character seem intelligent, even philosophical, they could never mask the mindless violence the film embodies. It's hard for any thinking person to imagine that the movie continues the grand tradition of filmmaking, when all we see is a kung fu gorefest on the edge of lunacy. There should be a new rating for movies like this one: B.D., for brain dead. Johan Adam Wong Selangor, Malaysia

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...they ask nostalgically, “Can It Be All So Simple”, eventually breaking down “fly clichés” and easy street/smart dichotomies in favor of an epic, all-American mythos that draws on everything from pulp comic books and cheap kung-fu movies. Any static visual display of artifacts and commentary will be hard-pressed to uncover the symbolic web of even one Wu-Tang album, let alone the genre as a whole. While it may display some truly fly chains, “Hip Hop Won’t Stop?...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Inside the Hip-Hop Museum—Look, But Don't Touch | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...profits may come from online video ads, which Web tracker eMarketer projects will soar to $640 million by 2007, nearly tripling last year's take. America Online this month launches In2TV, an ad-supported lineup of six streaming-video channels featuring 300 episodes of such vintage series as Kung Fu, Growing Pains and Falcon Crest. "It's not material everyone wants to own," says AOL vice president Erik Flannigan in a bit of an understatement. "But certainly shows like Wonder Woman can be entertaining from the kitsch factor alone." AOL executive vice president Kevin Conroy says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brave New TV Land | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...ideas about power and liberation with futuristic blowuppy thrills. "I've made a lot of stupid action films," says Joel Silver, a producer on V. "But when we made the Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that." In the mid-1990s, back before Keanu knew kung fu, the Wachowskis wrote a screenplay of V for Vendetta. When Matrix mania finally subsided in 2003, they had the time to get the movie made. Just as important, they'd earned Warner Bros. $600 million in the U.S. at the box office, and that kind of money buys you the kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mad Man In The Mask | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

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