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...produced stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans dating back to 1930s Charlie Chan movies, and more recently, take-out delivery boys and kung fu masters who only speak broken English. The stereotypical overachievers in academia have been spectacular under-achievers in cinema, with their roles largely consigned to these typecast pigeonholes...
...Appearing in adults-only Hong Kong movies was tougher for actresses, who might be quickly and permanently typecast once they had bared all, and for whom Cat III was not so much a calling card for stardom as a brand of shame. Yet Loletta Lee could go from teen cutie (in ?Shanghai Blues?) to sex-film siren (in the Cat III ?Sex and Zen II?) to a Best Actress citation from the Hong Kong Film Awards (for Ann Hui?s ?Ordinary Heroes?). And Hsu Chi, the Taiwanese lovely who had posed pink for photo books - and who made her Hong...
...humbling." Now, at 51, he is set for perhaps the most humbling giant step of his career, one that may finally make people stop asking, "Henry who?" Q&A TIME: There was talk after Shylock of your doing Fiddler on the Roof, but you were reluctant to be typecast as a Jewish actor. So why Bialystock, a very Jewish role? GOODMAN: I want to celebrate being a Jewish actor, but I don't want to become trapped and ghettoized. My Jewishness is there to be tapped into when it's appropriate, as here. But my last play, Feelgood, was totally...
Bono also wins plaudits because he's not easily typecast. Asking for more government funding for the developing world is a quick way to get applause from liberal constituencies. But Bono stresses a more subtle point, and one that often raises opposition on the political left. For many nations, exporting agricultural commodities and cheap T shirts is the best way to raise standards of living, yet as soon as they try to do so, protectionist lobbies in the First World--French farmers, American textile firms--scream bloody murder. Bono isn't swayed. "There is no justification," he says, "for denying...
...Bono also wins plaudits because he's not easily typecast. Asking for more government funding for the developing world is a quick way to get applause from liberal constituencies. But Bono stresses a more subtle point, and one that often raises opposition on the political left. For many nations, exporting agricultural commodities and cheap T shirts is the best way to raise standards of living, yet as soon as they try to do so, protectionist lobbies in the First World-French farmers, American textile firms-scream bloody murder. Bono isn't swayed. "There is no justification," he says, "for denying...