Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dave is our greatest source of inspiration," said freshman Vincent Letteri, who turned in the most impressive performance of the match, if not the season...
...play opens, Bradley Yamashita (Young Lee '99) and Vincent Chang (Allen Soong '96) meet at a Hollywood party. Bradley, a young actor who wants to change the way Asians are portrayed in the media, tells the older Vincent that he admires his work and speaks of how much it means to the "community." Bradley also explains that he has sought out Vincent because he feels more comfortable talking to the only other Asian-American in the room...
...Vincent, however, expresses little interest in the Asian-American community, and it quickly becomes clear that the two men have very different views. Vincent began his acting career on the "Chop Suey Circuit" performing for live audiences in Chinatown. He has enjoyed a successful career as an actor; he was even nominated for an Academy Award. But he has also faced a great deal of discrimination and has had to compromise his integrity in order to succeed in an industry dominated by whites. His desire to be an actor was so great that he prided himself on "never refusing...
Bradley is an ambitious and angry young man who does not approve of some of the parts that Vincent has accepted. He refuses to play Asian-American characters that he considers racist caricatures. Bradley ridicules the "Asian-American Actor Awards," a group that presents a lifetime achievement award to Vincent, and mockingly suggests that awards be given for "best actor in the category of Vietnamese killer" and for "best actor with five lines or less...
...Vincent Schiraldi, director of San Francisco's Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, referring to the fact that more than four times as many pot smokers as murderers have been imprisoned under California's "three strikes" law. The measure was pushed into law after ex-convict Richard Allen Davis was charged with kidnapping and murdering 12-year-old Polly Klaas...