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Breaking Into New Hollywood Q&A with author Ada Tseng
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Breaking Into New Hollywood Q&A with author Ada Tseng
Congress Cut Funding to Public Media
Don Young
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Mayukh Sen’s ‘Love, Queenie’ Clarifies Merle Oberon’s Mixed Race Legacy

In 1936, actress Merle Oberon was nominated for her role as Kitty Vane in The Dark Angel, at the Eighth Annual Academy Awards. Eighty-seven…

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CPB May Be Closing, But CAAM Will Persevere

With the announcement that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) will be closing down operations after the elimination of its federal funding, we at…

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Ada Tseng on Breaking Into New Hollywood as an Asian American

Ada Tseng says she partially wrote the book, Breaking Into New Hollywood: A Career Guide to a Changing Industry (Simon and Schuster), for Asian…

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Congress Cut Funding to Public Media, But CAAM Is Not Going Away

With Congress’ vote to approve the rescissions request, we at CAAM would like to express our deep disappointment with the decision to eliminate previously…

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Don Young Named as CAAM’s New Executive Director

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