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Insider / Outsider: An Interview with Wayne Wang.
The director Wayne Wang, in his own words, is an “insider/outsider” — responsible for Hollywood hits such as Maid in Manhattan (2002), critically-acclaimed independent films Smoke and Blue in the Face (both 1995 collaborations with Paul Auster), and pioneering Asian American films such as Chan Is Missing (1982) and Dim Sum: A Little Bit of [...]
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Accents.
The discussion on accents in the comments section of my last post ages ago reminded me of an interview I conducted a little while back with a community activist based in South San Francisco. She had asked me about my relatives, and where I was from, and I responded in Tagalog. She said (also in [...]
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It’s Steve, and It’s Not Steve.
The other week I asked a series of rhetorical questions, all related to the life of an Overseas Filipino Worker, about Arnel Pineda, the new lead singer for Journey. Of course, Pineda’s no ordinary OFW, unlike those almost 60,000 Filipino overseas performing artists. (The salary of a lead singer, one supposes, allows you to distance [...]
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Unfunny.
Esther Ku is a stand-up comedian on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and I’ve been trying to wrap my head around why exactly her act is so spectacularly unfunny. (Gentle Reader, you may take my word for it, but it’s best if you make up your own mind and watch her act on YouTube yourself.)
Look: I think we should be supportive of [...]