7/26/2023 0 Comments Charles yu talks about interior![]() I think she said she was from California, but then Bob asked her again: But where are you from originally? The woman paused and said that her family had immigrated from the Philippines. It’s wonderful, and I watch it all the time.) A woman was called to ‘come on down,’ and when she got to contestant’s row, Bob Barker asked her where she was from. ( There’s a channel on Pluto TV that streams nothing but the show’s episodes from that era. Reading this book reminded me of an episode I recently watched of ‘The Price is Right’ from the 1980s. It blends humor and historical facts, and is a triumph of style and metaphor. It felt clever, creative and playful, and allowed him to skewer both the entertainment industry and America’s overall racial narrative where Blacks and whites are the central characters and every other group is relegated to mere extras. Willis’s perception and understanding of himself grows and changes as he navigates the loosely assembled plot points of what feels like a buddy-cop movie or a ‘Law & Order’ episode. He dreams of becoming a ‘Kung Fu Guy,’ a more visible role that society has deemed acceptable for an Asian man to play. Willis lives in a Chinatown SRO among a community of stereotypical bit players, including restaurant workers and elderly Kung Fu masters. Protagonist Willis Wu describes himself as ‘Generic Asian Man,’ and is a background character in American life and in the country’s great black-and-white racial drama. The book is literally structured like a screenplay, complete with setting descriptions and the characters identified as roles. ‘Interior Chinatown’ embodies Shakespeare’s famous maxim that all the world’s a stage and that we’re merely the players.
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