Toward Cultural Understanding

On tonight's American Masters there is a fine episode about the Chinese in Hollywood. It covers a lot of ground, and I learned quite a bit. Some funny interviews - James Hong doing Peter Lorre, Nancy Kwan defending her skin creme infomercial...

The high point for me is them giving some attention to Chan is Missing, an old favorite of mine (a cool update is here).

[Posted that too early - the high point is Ebert getting up at Sundance screaming "they have the right to be anyone they want to be!"]

Somehow I managed to get this far without having ever heard of Flower Drum Song. One fellow says he watched it as a child, and this song "really made me want to be a grown-up." Me too...