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...Ng says that TV Guide's story will also address how her own life--not least her attendance at Harvard--and personality contribute to Shelby's role-model-status for young girls...
...addition to its popularity with viewers, "The Mystery Files", according to Ng, has been showered with attention. She says that "from the beginning, the show has gotten an unprecedented amount of press...
...Ng, who played one of the leading roles of The Joy Luck Club, said that last year, TV Guide picked up on a trend in television: shows that featured strong girls as their main characters. Other magazines, such as Time, ran stories about the trend, too, and now TV Guide wants to follow up on its discovery with a cover story titled "Nickelodeon's Leading Ladies...
...Ng's case, though, her character is unique not only by virtue of her gender or her strong personality...
Shelby is Asian-American, and Ng notes that Shelby "is not a particularly good student. She's an average girl, not interested in getting straight A's." Ng says she is proud to portray Asians as "real people...not geeks, not nerdy...