February 11, 2009 by me.

I’ve just been informed that our interview with the Alpha Asian is now online (check out his Feb. 10th entry). So for those of you who are not current readers of his blogspot, you can check out his questions (and my answers) on his site.

Thanks, J!

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February 10, 2009 by me.

Coming soon. Keep posted.

Btw, I just checked and we’re up to 3,088 channel views on metacafe.com. Again, as I’ve mentioned on previous occasions, although much appreciated because these are still quantifiable, at the same time, none of these count toward our Producer Rewards Candidacy! It’s when you type “Wingmen” into the search engine and view (and rate) the clips from there that do. So thanks and spread the word!!!

Also, I talked to Rob (our webmaster) and if all goes as planned, this weekend he’ll be posting (not one but) two new clips exclusively on our site. Thanks for your unbelievable patience..!

Update: As of April 9th, 2009, we’re now at 3,725 channel views on metacafe.com. Not bad, but we’d still prefer the produced views (see above), which I notice are starting to tick upward again — thanks for spreading the word!

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February 5, 2009 by me.

This is slightly off-topic — but in a way not exactly, as it still has to do with the lack of Asian-American leads in a TV series –

So I recently found out there once existed on network TV a soap opera series named “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing” (1967-1973), that it was a spin-off of the 1955 movie (disclosure: of which I have only viewed a few minutes) and song of the same name but which took place 20 years later and was set in San Francisco. It starred (it seems, for the first few months anyway) an Asian-American actress named Nancy Hsueh who was cast as Mia Elliott and who played the daughter of Mark and Han Suyin Elliott (the characters played by Jennifer Jones and William Holden).

So belated hats off to Irna Phillips (the original serial writer/creator) for her foresight, determination and integrity in wanting to depict an interracial storyline — most especially as we can see in our multicultural and multiethnic society of today the results of such real-life relationships as were already happening throughout the cities and small towns of our United States of America.

Makes me wonder what else might have unfolded had Ms. Phillips (who was, as described by Wikipedia, a challenging personality herself) not quit the series in protest rather than compromise her story to appease the skittishness of that time…

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