…like the 38-year-old Lee, penetrates the Ivy League and Manhattan professional world. It is the fluidity and rigidity of the U.S. class system that Lee exposes through a series of…
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Celebrate Bruce Lee’s Birthday With 5 Of His Most Iconic Film Scenes
…Bruce Lee vs. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx8vIjEKvT8 Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar studied Jeet Kune Do under Lee and the two formed a close friendship, so it’s no surprise that Abdul-Jabbar made…
Actor Orion Lee Travels Back In Time In A24’s ‘First Cow’
…Laoshi in the film “A Brilliant Young Mind” to playing Po in the Bruce Lee-inspired television series “Warrior.” Born in Hong Kong, Lee has put down roots all around the…
The Treatment: A Chinese American Confederate Soldier Changes The Course Of History In ‘The True, Tall Tales of Robert E(ng) Lee’
…together. CHARACTERS Robert Eng Lee, 36. A Chinese American man born and raised in rural Virginia, Eng Lee’s loyalties lie with his country—even as the very definition of that word…
‘The Good Doctor’ Actor Will Yun Lee Sets The Caregiving Standard
…for his father (taekwondo grandmaster Soo Woong Lee), his mother and his 6-year-old son, Cash. Lee, who has built a career bringing the pain in movies like “Elektra” and “The Wolverine,” has found…
The Hidden War
…Lee. “It is unreal.” Then one evening in 2004, a male colleague raped her. It was the first of two such incidents. Lee kept her silence. Lee’s story echoes the…
Dr. Sammy Lee, Barrier-Breaking Olympic Diver And Korean American Pioneer, Dies at 96
…Lee in 1995, for KoreAm Journal. (file) KoreAm Journal, July 1995 (file) KoreAm Journal, January 2000 (file) In 2000, Lee told KoreAm that his most poignant setback occurred when he…
Get to Know Dis/orient/ed Comedy’s Jenny Yang
…the time since she began pursuing an entertainment career, Yang has come to the definitive conclusion that “we need more Asian American artists.” In this spirit, Yang founded Dis/orient/ed Comedy,…
An Intimate Conversation with Ang Lee
…worked with Lee on Brokeback Mountain in 2005. Held in the Charles Aidikoff Screening Room in Beverly Hills, Creative Encounter began with a video montage of Lee’s numerous films along…
‘The Wolverine’s Will Yun Lee Talks Film, Fatherhood, ‘Friday Night Lights’
…actor Will Yun Lee is exhausted, but insanely happy. Just five days before, Lee and his wife, Jennifer Birmingham, also an actor, became first-time parents to their son, Cash. That…
Star-studded ’Operation Chromite’ premiere lights up K-Town
…stars – Korean actors Jung-jae Lee and Bum-soo Lee, as well as American actors Sean Dulake and Justin Rupple – to CGV Cinemas, while Asian American stars like Margaret Cho,…
‘Free Chol Soo Lee’ Finds Home on PBS Network, Set to Premiere April 24
…not commit, Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement, which included Korean, Japanese and Chinese Americans, who aided in overturning his conviction. “Free Chol Soo Lee” documents his…
Strike Back Is One of the Most Fun Shows Will Yun Lee Has Ever Worked On
…Lee Story, starring Hawaiian-Chinese American actor Jason Scott Lee, and he was inspired. “It was the first time when I said, ‘I think I wanna do what he does.’ [Jason…
21-Year-Old South Korean Lee Jong-hyun to Test NBA Waters
…Lee, ranked 47th among international players in the draft, may have a shot at becoming a backup player on an NBA team for the 2015-16 season. Although Lee has been…
March Issue: Yellow Power Redux
…personal work. Lee insists it’s not autobiographical, although his characters’ lives do often parallel that of the real-life Don Lee. Told in the first person, the novel is set both…
