The above clip from the pilot episode of the short-lived sitcom All-American Girl, features a then-25 year-old Margaret Cho and a then-40-year-old Jodi Long, as her mother. The show lasted all of 19 episodes from 1994-1995 and used the “plight-of-the-Asian-family-torn-between-two-cultures-and-coping-with-life-in-the-US” formula. The storyline and its characters were based on Margaret’s stand-up act (before it relied on profanity and revolved around the word “lesbian”) but unlike Margaret’s early routines, All-American Girl needed the laugh track to get laughs.
This is just one of his hobbies.
Despite a commenter at Reddit saying they call her “Bagel Soo” because he just “cream cheesed” in his pants while watching one of her videos, Bagel Soo’s nickname has nothing to do with the O-shaped bread (but she’d probably make a better compliment to lox).
“Bagel” is a “Konglish” word used to describe a baby-faced girl with a voluptuous body. They take the first syllable of “baby” and the first syllable of the Korean pronunciation of “glamor” (which they use to describe a curvy and sexy body, rather than truly glamorous, as by the Western definition of the word) and put them together to come up with “bagel.” Hence, a very prime example of a “bagel girl” (“베이글녀”) is Soo here.
This clip from a late 1976 episode of Barney Miller, entitled “Christmas Story,” has Japanese actress and former Miss Tokyo Nobu McCarthy as a hooker/mugging victim, giving her report to Sgt. Ron Harris (and catching the eye of Sgt. Nick Yemana, who doesn’t find out her occupation until after he makes a date with her).
Born Nobu Atsumi in Canada in 1934, she probably chose to keep her first husband’s surname because she had it when she made her acting debut in the 1958 film The Geisha Boy. Her film career lasted until her death in 2002, while she was on location in Brazil, making Gaijin 2: Love Me as I Am. More details of her death and career in this article at Backstage.com.
Above is Adele Yoshioka as “Sunny,” Harry Callahan’s very friendly neighbor, introducing herself to the San Francisco police inspector in 1973′s Magnum Force. According to the film’s screenwriter John Milius, the character Sunny was written in as Harry’s “love interest” because Clint Eastwood received many fan letters from Asian women that contained sexual propositions. Unless the info that those ladies were Asian, was solely gathered because they stated so in their writings or from their names, one can assume photos were also enclosed in those fan letters. I wonder if Mr. Eastwood saved them.
As for Miss Yoshioko, she pretty much retired from acting after her role as a lab assistant in the 1999 film A Table for One. She currently serves on the board of directors for the Coalition for Asian Pacifics in Entertainment, an organization she’s been involved with since 1991. Read more about that in this 2010 interview she did with Examiner.com.
Even though her signature role was undoubtedly the sadistic Varla in Russ Myer’s 1965 gem, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, here’s a then 35-year old Tura Satana, giving a taste of her go go dance moves in 1973′s The Doll Squad.
Tura passed away in February 2011, but fans will always keep her memory alive at her memorial website. Her personal blog is still up and just as it was when she last posted to it in March of 2010.
Even though she checked “no” for “shoots nudes” at her Model Mayhem page, Korean-American actress Lena Young (aka Lena Hwang) sure made an exception for her role as the ditzy “Bibi” in this year’s comedy/horror The Coed and the Zombie Stoner ….or perhaps she was referring to only still photography.
Above (at 1:34) we see Bibi/Lena and company streaking through their college campus, unaware that a good portion of the student body have become zombies. However, the girls soon find out what it takes to sedate and subdue the flesh-eaters and make their way to safety.
Another notable Asian lady in the cast, albeit in a much smaller and fully-clothed role, is veteran B-movie actress Christine Nguyen (first featured at the old site here and then shortly thereafter here), who plays the university librarian.
I wouldn’t put The Coed and the Zombie Stoner at the top of my “to watch” list for Halloween horror, as it leans way more toward comedy than it does horror, and lame sophomoric comedy at that, but due to its gratuitous nudity and Jamie Noel as a wonderfully foul-mouthed sorority president named Bambi, it’s worth a look.
Serial killer Jason Voorhees has never been a discriminating slayer, but to date, his only Asian female victim has been Eva Watanabe (played by a then-unknown 21-year-old Kelly Hu, first featured at the old site here) in 1989′s Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. As you can see from the above scene, Eva’s death sure wasn’t merciful, but at least it was “splatter-free.”
Even though she was never much of a singer, top Korean actress Choi Jin-sil made quite a few appearances on the MBC show Saturday Night Music. Above is a then-24-year-old Miss Choi singing “For Our Precious Love” during an April 1993 broadcast of the show.
Exactly one week ago marked the 6th anniversary of her suicide by hanging. Her brother took his own life in March of 2010 and her ex-husband in January of 2013, both in the same manner.
The above 1981 TV commercial for L’eggs Sheer Elegance pantyhose (back when they came in the plastic “eggs”) features little-known actress and model, Helen Selby. Besides doing commercials for L’eggs (the one that aired the year after this one would probably be deemed even more racist by today’s media standards) and a few other products, she appeared in a 1988 episode of Cosby entitled “Bookworm” and then seems to have just disappeared from the public eye. She now resides in the “Whatever Happened to..? file.
Earlier this month, Thai publishing company Muangthai Book released a public school math textbook featuring a shot of JAV Idol Mana Aoki as their “cover girl.” The photo is originally from the promo shoot for Costume Play Working Girl, in which Miss Aoki (naturally) stars as the costume play working girl. The authors’ names on the above image of the cover, that’s been floating around the net to accompany this story, have been blurred out to protect the embarrassed.
Of course, Muangthai Book didn’t know who Miss Aoki was when her photo was found on the net and selected by one of their employees, but when they found out, they stopped publication of the book until a new cover is chosen. As for the reported 3,000 copies that had been released, it’s a good bet that they’re already collectors’ items, so some astute math students and teachers will probably hang on to theirs, despite a recall.
This has been all over the net for a couple of weeks now, so for more details, a simple Google search will take you to many other articles covering this, such as this one at Rocket News 24.
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