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Brenda Song said during a recent awards acceptance speech that the Walt Disney Company 'nixed' her from pursuing a role in ...
In 2008, "Gran Torino" became the first major U.S. film to feature Hmong American actors. Among them was Bee Vang, then a 15-year-old newcomer who portrayed Thao Lor, a neighbor to Clint Eastwood ...
Marketing consultant Terry Press had her 9-year-old son Ethan in the car when she heard the news that Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’ had made $29 million to win this past weekend’s box ...
EXCLUSIVE: Bee Vang, who is best known for his role in the 2008 pic Gran Tornio, is set to lead Daric Loo’s indie horror-comedy Dark Christmas.He will join Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Nicholas ...
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Gran Torino follows Walt Kowalski (Eastwood), who is a widow and Korean War veteran. His family alienates him and he’s angry at the world. Walt’s young neighbor, Thao Vang Lor (Vang), tries to ...
We all need Dirty Harry. Even Clint Eastwood needs him — with his you-feel-lucky-punks and that all-perceiving squint of moral discernment. Clint-as-Harry isn’t a man’s man; he’s a man’s ...
Gran Torino producer Double Nickel Entertainment is forging a limited TV series about the life of Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law Jo van Gogh-Bonger.
Word has it that "Gran Torino" is Clint Eastwood's last turn on the big screen; he plans to stay behind the camera from here on out. Assuming that's true, it's hard to imagine a better final note ...
Gran Torino is not a perfect film, and sometimes feels a tad overwritten and wordy (freshman screenwriter Nick Schenk’s extreme, racially-charged language occasionally borders on parody), ...
“Gran Torino” actor Bee Vang published an op-ed in NBC News’ “Think” column on Wednesday criticizing the anti-Asian slurs in the 2008 movie directed by Clint Eastwood. Playing Thao Vang ...
Gran Torino also provides glimpses of the Detroit area, including devastated Highland Park (see The rise and fall of Highland Park, Michigan), although the picture is somewhat sanitized.(And, it ...