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Wrinkles: Trader Joe’s sells porn!?
Photo courtesy of East West Players Comedy is the hardest genre to write because it's easy to have a few great lines in a production, but to be able to sustain the humor and not start digging into cliches is the hard part. Standing ovation for Paul Kikuchi who has the...
Johnny Nguyen: “Clash” comes to the USA!
Back in November we saw a screening of the film Clash and did a review of the film which we throughly enjoyed! At that time Johnny was filming in India and was kind enough to send us an interview in which he talks about the film. On March 11th Clash will open in...
Joel de la Fuente Interview: Acting as a profession
We recently did a post on the new film The Adjustment Bureau. One of "barriers" we were talking about is Joel de la Fuente who is the first we were able to contact for an interview. Joel is based in New York, so we are hoping this will be part one of a interview and...
Jon Chu: Never Say Never
No, it's not the title to a James Bond film, it's a new film directed by Jon Chu. What is amazing is that The Bieber would end up in a post on here! For all the anti-Bieb in the world you can't deny that he has something that has created a huge fan base. And to his...
New Faces: Mae Flores
October 1, 2010 marked the world premiere of Atlantis Down in Portsmouth, VA. Among the stars is Mae Flores in her feature film debut. Born in the Philippines, Mae had the acting/performing bug in her system from the very young age of 3. Even before reaching her...
Wrinkles: An interview with Jeff Liu, Paul Kikuchi & Sab Shimono
A couple weeks ago in Little Tokyo in the East West Players theater, on a still under contruction stage, we sat down with Director Jeff Liu, Writer Paul Kikuchi and later with lead actor Sab Shimono to discuss the new production Wrinkles. The "family friendly" stage...
The Adjustment Bureau: Breaking a few barriers
The Matt Damon/Emily Blunt thriller The Adjustment Bureau is slated to hit theaters March 4, 2011 and among the cast is not one actor/actress who has an asian connection, but five! Included in the cast are Anthony Ruivivar, Joel de La Fuente, Purva Bedi, Rob Yang and...
Sean Michael Afable Interview: On the rise…
We met Sean at the CAPE's year end event and found him to be very warm and personable which of course made us think we should introduce people to this rising star. The interesting thing is that Sean started out as a child actor in such films as Delivering Milo,...
Stuart Qian: Shanghai Artist
Stuart Qian self portrait As readers are aware, we take the liberty to deviate slightly from Asian-American Hollywood at times. In the case of Shanghai artist Stuart Qian, we saw some of his abstract art that incorporates painting, drawing, clip art, photos, film and...
Won Lee: Taxi Cab Killer
We featured an interview and some of Won Lee's singing ability on a previous posts and word has it that he will be on on new Discovery Channel series called Kidnap & Rescue. The first episode premiered last Saturday and in the second episode on February 5th called...
Paul Wu: Kusarigama Soldier
We have had numerous conversations with Paul Wu about doing an interview and were it not for the fact that he is in Canada it would have been done already! March 11th marks the release of the film Red Riding Hood which looks like a fun, dark ride. Buried in the film...
Steve Nguyen Interview: Hibakusha
Hibakusha Team: Steve & Choz Confession: We are really excited about the upcoming animated documentary Hibakusha by Steve Hguyen and Choz Belen. It is more than just a historical subject, the film is a story from a dark yet optimistic perspective loaded with personal...