Category Archives: TV

Chinese-American Marine Kurt Chew-Een Lee Featured in “Uncommon Courage: Breakout at Chosin”

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Jeff

I asked my Dad what he was doing on Memorial Day, and he said that he was attending a Memorial Day commemoration for Veterans.   I wasn’t surprised, as he was a 20 year Navy Veteran.  One thing I’d like to … Continue reading →

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East Of Main Street: Asians Aloud on HBO On-Demand

Posted on May 28, 2010 by John

Spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai informed me the other day that HBO’s mini-documentary East of Main Street: Asians Aloud is available until the end of May on HBO On-Demand ( On-Demand>Movies or Documentaries>Asian Heritage>Asians Aloud ). Check out the … Continue reading →

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Moye Interviews Daniel Dae Kim for G4’s Attack of the Show: Behind the Scenes of Lost & Hawaii Five-O

Posted on May 26, 2010 by jozjozjoz

Move over Barbara Walters! Take a step back Oprah! Our very own Moye has been landing the big shot interviews recently– with Louis Ozawa Changchien to LOST and the new Hawaii-Five-O’s Daniel Dae Kim. Check out the video from G4’s … Continue reading →

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Asian American Commercial Watch: Asians Have Sex, Too

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Ben

UPDATED 2/16/2015: Johnson & Johnson pulled down the previous uploads of the K-Y Intense ads that were embedded in the original post. I’ve included new embeds in the post. Yes, these are the K-Y ads that Randall Park referred to … Continue reading →

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Nikita Star Maggie Q a Crowd-Pleaser at CW Upfront

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Linda

Yesterday, I attended the CW network upfront, which is a major annual event where the TV networks reveal their fall schedules. The CW was the last of the Big 5 networks to present and as you have probably heard by now, … Continue reading →

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CBS Releases Hawaii Five-O Preview with Grace Park, Daniel Dae Kim

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Ernie

As previously blogged about by Linda this past February, everyone previously bummed out about Jin [POSSIBLE SPOILERS DELETED FOR THOSE WHO WATCH LOST ON TIVO, BUT SERIOUSLY DIDN’T THAT SUCK FOR THE BOTH OF THEM WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE] on … Continue reading →

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Miss USA Breaks Through Another Racial Barrier

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Edward

Say what you will about the Miss USA pageants, but when I learned today that the winner of the beauty pageant competition was Rima Fakih (who won Miss Michigan on September 19th, 2009), I whooped at my computer screen and … Continue reading →

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POP 88 #42 – The House of Suh

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Xxxtine

While there were a lot of really fascinating documentaries shown at this year’s Hot Docs World Documentary Festival in Toronto this past week, one of the more stand out ones was “The House of Suh”. Directed by Iris Shim, the … Continue reading →

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Asian American Commercial Watch: General Mills

Posted on May 13, 2010 by John

Here’s a General Mills cereal commercial with a bunch of cute kids, including an Asian American boy swimmer. I’m glad they didn’t make him wear the martial arts outfit, since we don’t all know Karate, Kung Fu or Tae Kwon … Continue reading →

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Global Talk Show: East vs. West Perspectives

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Xxxtine

Most people who follow my antics from POP 88 would know I LOVE watching Global Talk Show, an informal round table of “foreigners” living and working in Korea. Since my last post about this show, it has gone through a … Continue reading →

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An 8Asians Interview with Glee’s Harry Shum Jr

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Dino-Ray

Before Harry Shum Jr. was poppin’ and lockin’ on the pop culture phenomenon known as Glee, he was — well — dancing. Before his stint as Mike Chang on the show, he appeared in iPod commercials as well as dance-centric … Continue reading →

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John Cho Talks FlashForward & Star Trek 2

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Moye

I don’t care what you say. Life is supremely unfair when the one week I’m out of the office, John Cho comes in for a special visit on Attack of the Show. I don’t know if this is the universe’s … Continue reading →

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