Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, in the casting offices, there is a dawning of hope. Jason Scott Lee, the Hawaiian-born Asian who played Bruce Lee in the spring hit Dragon ($35 million in the U.S., plenty more abroad), could be the first major Asian hunk in Hollywood since Sessue Hayakawa 75 years ago. "In this town Jason instantly became somebody who could star in a movie," says Chris Lee, senior vice president at TriStar Pictures and one of several Asian Americans (Teddy Zee at Columbia, Bonni Lee at Geffen, Richard Sakai at Jim Brooks' Gracie Productions) inching their way up Mogul Mountain...
SCENE: A suite last June in the Beverly Hilton Hotel. HEIDI arrives in response to a phone call from Hawaiian businessman SAMMY LEE, who explains that he wants to provide entertainment for some associates...
...happened, the President cut short his vacation and hurried to Iowa to inspect flood damage. For her part, Mrs. Clinton was not in Hawaii two days before she was visiting businesses participating in the Hawaiian health care system and viewing hurricane damage in Kauai...
Bill Clinton has also been trying to move fast. Last Wednesday he cut short a Hawaiian vacation to fly to Des Moines, where someone along his motorcade route held up a sign reading ALOHA, BILL. WELCOME TO THE OTHER BIG ISLAND. The President announced that he will ask Congress to put up an additional $2.5 billion for flood relief, which will have to be borrowed and will add to the budget deficit. On Saturday, he returned to the area with nearly half his Cabinet to talk about the region's needs, and promised to send federal troops if necessary. Clinton...
...Mississippi River and its tributaries continued to flood. In Iowa, days of rain sent the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers flowing over their banks, inundating farmland and knocking out Des Moines's main water-purification plant, leaving 250,000 people without running water. President Bill Clinton ended a Hawaiian vacation early to tour affected areas. "I've never seen anything on this scale before," he said. Clinton promised to ask Congress to approve $2.5 billion or more in disaster relief...