From TeamCoco: Andy Outsources His Job To China
Actually, Andy’s not the only one to take advantage of outsourcing: “Suddenly the whole show is much more ‘Beijing’ than ‘Burbank.’” Yup, Conan’s been outsourced to Chinese actors, producers, and head...
View ArticleAsian American Commercial Watch: Honda’s Clockwork Commute
In Honda’s latest 2013 ‘Civic Hybrid Interactive Tour: “Clockwork Commute”‘, the lovely actress Emily Chang plays the friend or girlfriend of a Honda Civic owner running errands and driving around a...
View ArticleAsian American Commercial Watch: Super Bowl 2013 Edition
With every Super Bowl, there are the commercials. In fact, many people just watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. But since I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, I was rooting for the 49ers – too...
View ArticleWhite Mom Tells Son: You’ll Never be as Good as Those Little Asians
When I was growing up, one of the stereotypes for Filipino kids was that we were all supposed be able to dance. In this video, it looks like this stereotype, probably encouraged by the success of...
View ArticleAsian American Commercial Watch: ESPN: This is SportsCenter – Jeremy Lin
If you’ve ever watched ESPN, you know that they often produce and air their own tongue-in-cheek commercials regarding their daily evening news sport wrap-up program SportsCenter. Oftentimes, EPSN will...
View ArticleThe Travel Channel: The Layover with Anthony Bourdain – Taipei
I’ve watched on-and-off The Travel Channel’s show, The Layover with Anthony Bourdain, after reading a review of the television series in the New York Times when the show first premiered in the Fall of...
View ArticleThe Amazing Race: Season 22: Pamela Chien & Winnie Sung
It’s been a while since I’ve followed The Amazing Race, but recently CBS pemiered the latest edition of the popular reality TV show. The Amazing Race has always done a great job of having Asian...
View ArticleThe Jeremy Lin Foundation Launched in Houston
As mentioned earlier, on Valentine’s Day Houston Rockets basketball star Jeremy Lin launched his foundation, the Jeremy Lin Foundation, according to a report: “The Houston Rockets point guard hosted a...
View ArticleThe Daily Show: Michelle Rhee
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Last month, Tina had blogged about Michelle Rhee and her distaste for Rhee’s maniacal focus focus on standardized testing. I think I had first heard of Rhee when she...
View ArticleAsian American Commercial Watch: Retirement Planning with TD Ameritrade
When I first saw this ad airing on TV, I thought that having “Bob” dressed up as a vampire was a bit odd (especially since you don’t often see Asian vampires – do they even exist in American...
View ArticleApril 1st: They’re All So Beautiful: Episode 1: What is “Yellow Fever”?
As I had blogged about when reviewing Seeking Asian Female, Director Debbie Lum had hundreds of hours of footage for her documentary that she did not use. Her original intent prior to focusing on the...
View ArticleAsian American Commercial Watch: Miller Time with Ken Jeong
Ironically, I saw this Miller commercial while watch the Duke vs. Creighton game (Duke won!) Maybe it isn’t exactly irony, but Ken Jeong did go to Duke for undergrad (and became a traitor by going to...
View Article60 Minutes: Linsanity: Jeremy Lin’s Rise to Stardom
Last September, I had blogged about Jeremy Lin’s escape from his busy Taipei schedule to play street basketball and how that was taped by 60 Minutes. The full 60 Minutes piece profiling Jeremy Lin...
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Unique Parenting Style? Asian American Parents Sought for New Cable Series
An award-winning production company and a top-rated national cable network is casting a new docu-series that will explore unique perspectives on parenting — styles like attachment parenting,...
View ArticleAsian American Commercial Watch: Progressive Insurance’s Announcer
In the latest Progressive Insurance, we have the spokesperson “Flo,” speaking with an Asian American couple about bundling their home and auto insurance together. Flo pushes a button, and a boxing...
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Sears “A Monkey’s Uncle”
Have you seen the Sears commercial featuring Jeanne Chinn, Lorenzo Lamas, and a monkey? Cute commercial, but if that didn’t sound like the start of a bad joke, I’m not sure what does. Screenshot...
View ArticleAsian American Commercial Watch: HTC One & Far East Movement
HTC’s latest Android smartphone, the HTC One, has been getting a lot of fantastic reviews and is about to launch in the United States. So it’s nice to see that one of their latest commercials features...
View ArticlePBS To Broadcast ‘Seeking Asian Female’– May 6th
Watch Coming to Independent Lens: Seeking Asian Female on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. Both Dino-Ray and I have seen and reviewed Seeking Asian Female, the documentary. For those of you living...
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“Asian Chops” Wants Your Food Stories
Filmmaker Grace Lee is making a documentary on Asian American food, and she wants your stories and ideas. “Asian Chops” (the current working title) will look at Asian America through the lens of food....
View ArticleLucy Liu, Hollywood Asian Stereotypes, and “Elementary” (my dear Watson)
Lucy Liu recently discussed racism in Hollywood, the problem with not being American enough and not being Asian enough–the classic paradoxical existence every Asian American lives in. She’s tired of...
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