“They were everything I aspired to be,” Bueckers said before the game. “They definitely gave me something to work for and admire. To be able to see what you want to be is very important, so I think, growing up, that was a huge part of the reason I wanted to be in this league.”
was a genuine compliment.She talks about how Jack Soo, a Japanese American who portrays a nightclub owner in
was incarcerated with other Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.Kwan believes her story is about hard work and advancement despite racism, not succumbing to it.After all, Asian actors’ roles used to be limited to “Fu Manchu villains, hypersexualized Dragon Ladies and comic buffoons” and “shopkeepers, maids and houseboys,” according to Kwan.
And so getting featured on the cover of Life magazine, wearing a body-hugging cheongsam, counted as a victory.Another big win is when Ross Hunter, a hot producer, rushes over to her at a Hollywood party and casts her in “Flower Drum Song.”
The musical film shattered stereotypes, she says, by focusing on fashionably dressed, wealthy Asians. Regardless of race, people cherish family, suffer heartbreak, laugh, sing, dance and dream of happiness, she writes.
Kwan calls the work “joyous entertainment with the universal message that whatever our race, we’re all alike.”China is imposing a 10% tariff on U.S. products during the 90-day negotiating period.
VARSOVIA, Polonia (AP) — Las autoridades en Suiza informaron el domingo que se han encontrado los cuerpos de cinco esquiadores en un glaciar sobre la localidad turística de Zermatt, después de que dos excursionistas reportaron haber visto esquís abandonados cerca del Rimpfischhorn, un pico de 4.000 metros (13.000 pies) en los Alpes de Valais.La policía de Valais indicó que las víctimas fueron localizadas en el glaciar Adler tras búsquedas aéreas y terrestres.
La identificación formal de las víctimas aún está en proceso, y sus nacionalidades no han sido divulgadas.Las autoridades han abierto una investigación sobre las circunstancias del accidente.