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wtf trailer: to save a life
This movie trailer, for the indie film To Save a Life, landed in my in-box the other day. Outside of its obvious movie-of-the-week cheese factor (from the looks of it, it's being heavily marketed towards Christian audiences), I'm shaking my head at some of the really troubling racial implications to the story. In short: Jake, the popular blond, blue-eyed high school teen questions his

this week's angriest posts
Not really the angriest, just the most viewed.yellowface ching chong nonsense on saturday night liveasian kid channels calvinhot chinese woman sits behind obama, becomes famousanother dumbass iphone app: meet a chinese girlkatherine heigl's "adoptable critters"rex lee hears gay/racial jokes on the set of entouragedisney's making a chinese high school musicalcrazy cute movie trailer: babieskleenex

jenna ushkowitz sings "true colors" on glee
I know there are a lot of Glee fans out there. Thought I'd share a clip from this week's episode of Glee, where we finally got to see Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) get her own full-fledged solo, singing lead on the glee club's rendition of "True Colors." Also check out this video clip about casting the role of Tina.

ifc's podcast talks ninja assassin and asian actors
Some good for thought... Wanted to point you to the latest edition of the IFC New Podcast: Forbidden Kingdom. This one centers of the release of Ninja Assassin, using it as a jumping off point to discuss the plight of Asian actors in Hollywood:In Asia, South Korea's Rain is a pop megastar with platinum albums who's toured the world, playing to stadium crowds. But in his first lead role in the

hot chinese woman sits behind obama, becomes famous
One young Chinese woman has become something of an overnight internet sensation... simply by sitting behind President Barack Obama (and looking pretty, of course): Wang Zifei, 'Beauty In Black Beside Obama,' Becomes A Sensation In China, Speaks Out.Wang Zifei, a student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, attended Obama's town hall at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, and happened to have