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After a grueling and public selection process, Lan Samantha Chang, Briggs-Copeland lecturer on English and American Literature and Language, has been selected to direct the University of Iowa (UI) Writers’ Workshop, beginning in January 2006. A graduate of the program, Chang is the first female as well as the first Asian-American director of the Workshop...
...things go well for Lan Samantha Chang, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language, she could become the next director of the prestigous Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa...
...time before The Good Earth was to be cast. "I said I hoped they would use Chinese actors in the leading parts," she recalled, "to which he replied that this was impossible because of the American star system." Wong, who had just turned 30, tested several times for O-lan, meeting with skepticism and animosity. The skeptic was Albert Lewin, the MGM producer in charge of casting the film. After a screen test, he wrote an evaluation expressing "a little disappointed as to looks. Does not seem beautiful enough to make Wang's infatuation convincing; however, deserves consideration." She also...
...other Chinese actors," Hodges writes, "Lewin consistently argued that, despite their ethnicity, they did not fit his conception of what Chinese people looked like." What were they supposed to look like? Warner Oland? No, not a Dane like Oland - Austrians! Paul Muni played Wang, Luise Rainer was O-lan and Tilly Losch got the role of Lotus. Wong, Chan, speculates, was "Too beautiful for one part and too old for the other." (Anna May's younger sister Mary Liu Heung Wong did get the small role of the Little Bride. She hanged herself in the family garage...
...name once as "Aye-Wan," a few moments later as "Ee-Wan"; then blowing a simple line ("Oh I'm not used - not used to - oh I'm used to serving, not sitting down with the others"); and finally stammering out a scene-ending sentence ("Tell me more, En-lan - En-lan - tell me more about this revolution") while the other actors try to cover and step on her line. It was the Circle of Chalk debacle all over again...