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“Crazy Rich Asians” brings the story of ridiculously wealthy Chinese to the...
A mansion that’s kept hidden from GPS detectors, aunties that speak poor Mandarin but perfect “Vanessa Redgrave English”; dogs named Astor, Trump and Vanderbilt; house maids trained in the royal court...
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The trailer for “Crazy Rich Asians” has some asking: Where are the brown faces?
Now that the trailer for Crazy Rich Asians has finally dropped, it seems to all but confirm that the movie won’t be as diverse as many Asians had hoped. While the film, an adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s...
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“Crazy Rich Asians” made a ballsy decision to turn down a crazy rich Netflix bid
The makers of Crazy Rich Asians aren’t afraid of a challenge. They’re putting out their film—the first US studio entry with an all-Asian cast in 25 years—with the specific goal of proving to Hollywood...
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Apple’s latest TV series will feature a majority Asian cast
Apple is turning Pachinko, a critically acclaimed novel that tells the story of a Korean family spanning four generations and three countries, into a TV show. The news was first reported by the...
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How good an economist is Rachel Chu in “Crazy Rich Asians”?
The release of the new movie Crazy Rich Asians this weekend, featuring an all-Asian cast, is an important milestone for people who care about diversity in pop culture. As a recent Vanity Fair headline...
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How Coldplay’s “Yellow,” in Chinese, ended up on the “Crazy Rich Asians”...
The secret weapon of Jon M. Chu’s deliriously entertaining and slyly insightful rom-com Crazy Rich Asians (out today from Warner Bros, and if you haven’t bought your tickets yet, do that now) isn’t...
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Singapore is turning “Crazy Rich Asians” into a rebranding opportunity
The release this week of Crazy Rich Asians has been hailed as a win for Asian and Asian-American representation in Hollywood. And it’s a win also for the place where much of the film is set: Singapore....
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“Crazy Rich Asians” is a resounding victory for representation in Hollywood
The first Hollywood studio film to feature an all-Asian cast in 25 years is now the biggest romantic-comedy box office success in years. Crazy Rich Asians raked in $25.3 million in the United States...
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Hollywood initially wanted “Crazy Rich Asians” to cast a white lead actress
Constance Wu seems so well-suited to her role as Rachel Chu in the box-office hit Crazy Rich Asians that it’s hard to imagine any other actress playing the coveted part. But in an alternative reality,...
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The author of “Crazy Rich Asians” is a wanted man in Singapore
Kevin Kwan, whose book Crazy Rich Asians is now a Hollywood blockbuster, is wanted in Singapore for failing to register for the city-state’s national service and fulfill his two-year military service....
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Most viewers won’t get the mahjong scene in “Crazy Rich Asians.” That’s why...
Towards the end of Crazy Rich Asians, in a scene original to the film adaptation, Eleanor Young (Michelle Yeoh) and Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) enter a showdown over a game of mahjong. The steely...
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Chinese moviegoers think “Crazy Rich Asians” is really not that Asian
Crazy Rich Asians doesn’t even have a scheduled release in China, but more than a thousand Chinese moviegoers who have purportedly seen the movie are already chiming in—and many of them are not...
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“Crazy Rich Asians” doesn’t show the real Singapore, but this movie does
Long before I saw Crazy Rich Asians last weekend, when it opened in Taiwan, I was reading everything I could about it. I read the novel first; not only did it make for fun summer-travel entertainment,...
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A real-life “Crazy Rich Asians” will be turned into a movie
Another story about crazy rich Asians is coming to the big screen—this time it’s real life. The saga of how billions of dollars were looted from Malaysia’s state investment fund 1MDB and brought down...
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The misguided outrage over Claudia Kim’s casting in “Fantastic Beasts”
Representation in J.K. Rowling’s original Harry Potter universe is, to put it mildly, piss-poor. While very few characters in the series have their race explicitly specified, whiteness is the assumed...
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“Crazy Rich Asians” is the top-grossing romantic comedy in 10 years
US audiences must have been starved for a smart, sweet romantic comedy on the big screen. Jon Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians, based on the novel by Kevin Kwan about super-affluent Asian elites, is now the...
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India’s version of “Crazy Rich Asians” blurred out a dead fish
This post contains spoilers. In the blockbuster rom-com Crazy Rich Asians, which finally arrived in India over the weekend, Constance Wu’s character Rachel Chu encounters a nasty surprise in the midst...
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The twinkly Christmas rom-com feeds on the disappointment of women
Among streaming platforms, Netflix is known as a kind of Midas, using its vast trove of data to identify promising genres and turn them into mainstream gold. This holiday season, it is tapping into a...
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Why audiences in China are loving Green Book
“You people love fried chicken,” says a white chauffeur to the black man in the back seat, offering him a drumstick. “You have a very narrow assessment of me,” the passenger responds, refusing to take...
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Small-town India is splurging on luxury—and here’s what it’s buying
India’s luxury market is getting a boost from the country’s tier II cities. High end spending in these towns grew at a rate 30 times greater than in tier I cities between 2013 and 2018, according to an...
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Here’s how you can watch Game of Thrones’ new season in India—real time and...
The excitement among Game of Thrones (GoT) fans in India is reaching a feverish pitch. The eighth and final season of the fantasy show, based on George RR Martin’s novels, airs in mid-April. And while...
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From Coldplay private shows to Ronaldo’s yacht, here’s how Crazy Rich Indians...
Lara Morakhia dreams of Africa. The jewellery designer takes at least six holidays every year with her family, and their current favourite destination is the beautiful continent. They have visited it...
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How to get parity without quitting your job
It’s no secret that women are often paid less than their male counterparts—in the US, the median salary for women is 21% lower than the median salary for men, no matter their profession or position....
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