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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of the Asian American Association (AAA) will meet with producers of the Hasty Pudding Club (HPC) musical, "A Little Knife Music," on Wednesday to discuss what the AAA has called a "racist, humiliating and dangerous portrayal" of an Asian character, Michael T. Hsieh, '80, an AAA member, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asian Students Protest Characterization Of Hasty Pudding's 'Ed Foo Young' | 3/11/1980 | See Source »

...Knife Music" will continue to play at the HPC through March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asian Students Protest Characterization Of Hasty Pudding's 'Ed Foo Young' | 3/11/1980 | See Source »

...this year's Hasty Pudding Show, "A Little Knife Music," one of the actors is cast in the role of a Chinese character named Edgar Foo Yung. The character portrayed is so pitifully predictable, it is everything one would expect of a racist caricature. Complete with the requisite trailing pigtail, pidgin English, and tiny stature, he bows and clasps his hands together, preeminently laughable in all his jerky, awkward mannerisms. He is presented as a slimy little man who evilly lusts after the blond heroine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Edgar Foo Yung | 2/26/1980 | See Source »

...crowd of flowing skirts, crimson lips and bizarre hairdos-and the only one. Actress Meryl Streep had come to Cambridge, Mass., to accept an acting award from the thespians at Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals and to watch some skits from their all-male musical spoof, A Little Knife Music. Streep, an old Eli who studied acting at the Yale School of Drama, was presented with a gold pudding pot, and was also granted custody of one of the burly "chorus girls" who surrounded her-a send-up substitute for the kid she lost to Dustin Hoffman in Kramer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 25, 1980 | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...other, Pacino now affecting an effeminate walk. They throw down their burning fags in a mutual invitation to duel. Pacino steps out of his pants, urging on the killer ("get 'em down, I want to see the world") who whips out his blade. Pacino wounds him with his own knife and collapses against a wall, naked...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Nights in Black Leather | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

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