Started by blender1184 · 8 Jul 2005 · 1,969 replies
Tu_triky wrote:
"We have these old bingo players and they are really serious about their games," Webb explained. "They do not like to be interrupted."
When robbers barged in one evening and announced that they were holding up the place, the players turned around and testily told them to be quiet.
"They were making it difficult for the players to hear the numbers being called," Webb said.
All AboutSydney (Australia)
Tu_triky wrote:ABC Family picks up "Samurai Girl"
Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:15pm EST
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC Family has picked up "Samurai Girl," which the cable network plans to air as a "major programming event" consisting of three two-hour episodes.
"Samurai," from ABC Studios, is set to start production in the spring in Vancouver and is slated to air over one weekend in August 2008.
"Samurai," based on a series of popular young-adult novels, centers on a 19-year-old Japanese girl named Heaven (Jamie Chung) who discovers that the wealthy businessman who adopted her as an infant is really the head of the Yakuza (the Japanese mafia) and had her beloved brother brutally murdered. She breaks from her family and begins training to become a samurai, and with the help of a group of new American friends, sets out to take down her father's evil empire.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
bmwracer wrote:
The word "LAME" comes to mind.
And if I recall, "Chung" ain't Japanese.
:doh: I forgot: we all look alike in Hollywood. :shakehead:
Tu_triky wrote:I'm somewhat resigned to the fact that they would use a Chinese-American to play a Japanese character....not to say I'm "in agreement" but, by now it's to be expected. :shakehead:
Tu_triky wrote:
In any event I don't watch regular network television. <shrugs>
bmwracer wrote:
She could be Korean... Not that it matters. :sweat:
Will David Carradine (another well-known Asian) player her dad? :beaten:
suzzy wrote:well all on left to do is to watch and see if it will happened
i mean well if it so
Tu_triky wrote:
That's true...all you can do is wait and see, if one's interested that is.
Tu_triky wrote:ABC Family picks up "Samurai Girl"
Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:15pm EST
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC Family has picked up "Samurai Girl," which the cable network plans to air as a "major programming event" consisting of three two-hour episodes.
"Samurai," from ABC Studios, is set to start production in the spring in Vancouver and is slated to air over one weekend in August 2008.
"Samurai," based on a series of popular young-adult novels, centers on a 19-year-old Japanese girl named Heaven (Jamie Chung) who discovers that the wealthy businessman who adopted her as an infant is really the head of the Yakuza (the Japanese mafia) and had her beloved brother brutally murdered. She breaks from her family and begins training to become a samurai, and with the help of a group of new American friends, sets out to take down her father's evil empire.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
Kijinnmaru wrote:
Let me get this straight. Instead of getting guns, becoming an informant for the police, or starting her own gang, she's going to take revenge by spending decades to learn to use obselete weapons to take down a crime organization? This thing is going to have the life-span of Lindsay Lohan's sobriety. Oh God, I'm having horrid "Showdown in Little Tokyo" flashbacks!
I guess I'm the opposing thought on the whole "lump the Asians" mentality. Every other race has been playing different races in Hollywood for a long time so I see no reason that Asians should be any different, especially when things are in English.
Kijinnmaru wrote:Every other race has been playing different races in Hollywood for a long time
Tu_triky wrote:
Yeah there are lot of Caucasians that play Hispanic and Black roles.....
I'm still waiting for a Saudi to play the part of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. When's that one coming?
Kijinnmaru wrote:
No, but plenty of Canadians who play American, French, German, etc. British who play American, French, Russian, etc. Americans who play French, British, German, etc. Blacks who play different African nationals. Hispanics who play Mexicans, Salvadorians, Colombians, etc. Hispanics who play Caucasians. Should we have actual aliens play aliens then?
Tu_triky wrote::lol:
Yes we should. And we should get more Japanese to play Chinese roles....that goes over big in Shanghai and Beijing.
Tu_triky wrote:
Yes we should. And we should get more Japanese to play Chinese roles....that goes over big in Shanghai and Beijing.
bmwracer wrote:
The word "LAME" comes to mind.
And if I recall, "Chung" ain't Japanese.
:doh: I forgot: we all look alike in Hollywood. :shakehead:
tabana wrote:
I wouldn't hold my breath... considering it took 70 years to see Chinese in other roles than dry cleaners or kung fu fighters. :rolleyes: Minus George Takei.
As for the "Samurai Girl" She breaks from her family and begins training to become a samurai, and with the help of a group of new American friends, sets out to take down her father's evil empire. :bleh: No sh!t? Who wrote that? A monkey during the writer's strike? She could've done it without the fighting. Just take daddy's and the gang's credit cards and go buy a new car and LV bags. :hehe:
I think gyaru girl could've been successful.
tabana wrote:I think gyaru girl could've been successful.
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