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By Rebecca Louie
KRT CAMPUS
NEW YORK—If the stars of
“Better Luck Tomorrow” want to
make their own good fortune,
they need to do it now.
“If people don’t come out to
see us this weekend, we may not
be around for the procrastina
tors,” says Roger Fan, one of the
stars of the film about all-
American Asian teens-turned-
gangsters. It opens Friday.
“I spent yesterday handing
out postcards and buttons to peo
ple in Times Square, and I’ve
slapped our movie posters all
over the city,” Fan said.
After a pause, he adds: “You
don’t really see Keanu Reeves on
the street handing out things for
'The Matrix,’ do you?”
In a cinematic landscape
where Asian stars are mostly
martial arts imports who karate-
chop their way through action
films, a gritty drama about
Asian-American youths could be
a tough sell to audiences unac
customed to identifying with the
community. So the team behind
“Better Luck Tomorrow” has
been hitting the pavement in big
cities and small film festivals.
“There is no support for
Asian-American men in a socie
ty that expects them to be the
model minority,” says NaRhee
Ahn, program director at the
Asian-American Arts Alliance.
“They get punished for that same
stereotype—socially not adjust
ed, not sexy, the guy who can’t
get the girl.”
“Better Luck Tomorrow”
departs from the immigrant
narrative of such movies as
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“The Joy Luck Club" (1993),
putting its characters in the
pressure-cooker of overachiev
ing students in a California
high school.
“This isn’t to belittle (movies
that just explore Asian-
American) identity,” says Larry
Jung, of the Coalition of Asian
Pacifies in Entertainment. “But I
want to see more range from
Asian-Americans.”
Asian-Americans make up
4.2 percent of the U.S. popula
tion, according to the 2000 cen
sus, but a Screen Actors Guild
study from the same year
shows that only 1.7 percent of
all lead roles cast went to
Asians/Pacific Islanders.
“The characters of 'Better
Luck Tomorrow’ are mindful of
their heritage without being con
sumed by it,” Jung says, “and, as
a result, the film can explore
other tensions more thcrught-pro-
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As the slogan goes, Refdesk.com is the “sin
gle best source for facts on the Net,” It may be
a tall order, but it’s one the Web site fills
admirably.
The topics covered and the links provided are
diverse and all-inclusive. From astrology to zoos,
the Web site touches on various subjects.
Scrolling through Refdesk.com provides the
visitor with so much information that his head
practically spins. The information is separated
into clearly labeled sections and the layout is kept
clean— like a real reference desk in a library.
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ordered logically. Much of the Web site is
focused on news, but instead of having all of the
news items in one area, they are spread around
the three-column layout in a random order.
The Web site is also aimed primarily at
American issues. Many of the links are for news
around the world; however, more focus is placed
on American issues. The site should devote more
energy to foreign issues if it wants to maintain
an all-inclusive persona.
Nonetheless, the site stands up to its slogan.
Refdesk.com contains information about many
questions that an American might ask. It
makes an excellent start page for any Internet
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cheating is a little more difficult.
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