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Screen Actors Guild issues statement supporting Huang "Junie" Hoang's lawsuit challenging IMDB's unauthorized publication of her age.
Los Angeles (January 6, 2012) -- Screen Actors Guild today released the following statement:
Earlier today the lawsuit against IMDb.com and its parent company was amended to identify the plaintiff by her name, Huang Hoang. Screen Actors Guild applauds the determination and courage of the plaintiff in standing up to fight the unfair and abusive practice of publishing actors’ private information online without their consent.
“Ms. Hoang has shown great courage in stepping forward and pursuing her claims despite efforts to deter her by demanding she be publicly identified. Thousands of actors have had their careers harmed by the unauthorized publication of their birthdates by IMDb against their wishes. Screen Actors Guild and its members stand in support of efforts to curtail this invasion of privacy done to enhance a corporate balance sheet.
Mu Performing Arts’ Little Shop of Horrors on 2 ‘Best of‘ Lists; Women in Arts Panel on 1/29, in Conjunction with Mu Daiko’s 15th Anniversary Concert and Tour
Congratulations to Mu Performing Arts, currently celebrating its 20th Anniversary mainstage season, which continues its string of ‘Best of’ top end of year picks with last year’s musical offering, Little Shop of Horrors. In the last three seasons, seven out of nine productions have been listed on end of year lists.
Sara Ochs as Audrey and Randy Reyes as Seymour in the Mu Performing Arts production of Little Shop of Horrors. Photo by Michal Daniel
Graydon
Royce
of The
Minneapolis
Star
Tribune,
writes,
“Little
Shop
of
Horrors,”
Mu
Performing
Arts
“Heart,
charm
and
humor
wrapped
up
in
a
dopey
musical
about
a
human-eating
plant.This
show
demonstrated
how
far
Mu
has
come.
Jennifer
Weir
directed
and
actors
Randy
Reyes,
Sara
Ochs
and
Kurt
Kwan
led
the
cast.”
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/stageandarts/136113038.html
Dominic
P.
Papatola
of
the St.
Paul
Pioneer
Press writes,
“Theater
2011:
‘Best’
missed
the
test.
Here
are
10
productions
that
made
a
difference”
Opens Jan 20 in Theaters - Sudhish Kamath’s Good Night | Good Morning
Manu Narayan and Seema Rahmani Photo by Lia Chang
Manu Narayan (Bombay Dreams, Love Guru) and Seema Rahmani (Loins of Punjab, Missed Call, Sins) star in Sudhish Kamath’s new film Good Night | Good Morning, co-written with Shilpa Rathnam. The story is about an all-night phone call between two strangers on New Year’s night in New York City. Vasanth Santosham and Raja Sen are also featured in the cast.
Sudhish Kamath is a Chennai-based independent filmmaker, a journalist and film critic with The Hindu, one of India’s leading national newspapers. Good Night | Good Morning is his second feature. His first filmThat Four Letter Word, was a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film.
Kamath also hosts a talk show called Hands Up where he grills celebrities at gun-point. Recently, he signed up to do a movie review show on radio.
http://goodnightgoodmorningthefilm.com
Radovan Jovecevic, Gregory Generet,Vatsala Narayan, Seema Rahmani, Manu Narayan and Sudhish Kamath after the screening of GN/GM at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York in 2010. Photo by Lia Chang
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Lia
Chang is
an actor,
performance
and
fine
art
botanical photographer,
and
an award-winning
multimedia
journalist.
Asia Society honors fmr Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead at awards dinner in NY
The Asia Society held its 2011 Asia Society Awards Dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on Wednesday, January 11, 2012.
Asia Society Cultural Achievement Award winner David Henry Hwang, Diana Taylor and Mayor Michael Bloomberg. (Photo by Lia Chang)
Kathryn Layng and her husband Asia Society Cultural Achievement Award winner David Henry Hwang. (Photo by Lia Chang)
Comedian and actor, Dan Nainan emceed the festivities, which included a special performance by members of the Silk Road Ensemble.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Ray Kelly, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, were among the 400 who came out to honor and to celebrate the 90th birthday of former Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead, who was presented with an Asia Society Award.
Tony Award-winning and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright and librettist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), whose hilarious and sexy new comedyCHINGLISH is currently on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street) in New York was presented with the 2011 Cultural Achievement Award.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leading pro-democracy opposition leader in Myanmar, received the 2011 Asia Society Global Vision Award, and a videotape of her acceptance speech was played during the dinner.
Jan 21- Meet the Three Chinese Tenors at The China Institute in New York
The
Three
Chinese
Tenors,
Dai
Yuqiang,
Wei
Song
and
Warren
Mok
are
currently
on
a
a
world
tour
marking
their
appointment
as
China’s
cultural
ambassadors.
Ten years after the original Three Tenors performed live in the Forbidden City, China returns the favor. In anticipation of their by-invitation-only performance, “A Night with Beijing” at Alice Tully Hall, they’ll make a special appearance at the China Institute in New York on January 21, 2012 from 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Financial Times music critic Ken Smith, whose role for many years has been to explain opera in the West to the Chinese, and the opera in China to the West, will discuss with The Three Chinese Tenors, their respective roles in Western Opera’s recent success in China both in public visibility and recent prominence in the nation’s cultural agenda.
The China Institute is located at 125 East 65th Street in New York. The program also includes a pre-talk reception. Advance registration is required due to limited seating; $10 suggested donation toward supporting future Arts & Culture programming. Call 212-744-8181, ext. 111.
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