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q's pop culture panel weighs in on the worthy, contentious, and mind-boggling stories from the week in arts and entertainment. Opinionated and irreverent, our panel takes pop culture seriously (but not too seriously).
Today's panellists are Emily Keeler of Little Brother magazine and PEN Canada, Esquire columnist Stephen Marche, and Film and TV director Charles Officer. Up for discussion:
Given a host of troubling headlines about the Republican presidential nominee this week — calling Hillary Clinton "the devil," insulting the family of a dead soldier, suggesting that the election may be rigged — we ask: is it time to stop laughing?
Constance Wu, star of the ABC comedy Fresh off the Boat, recently expressed her frustration with Hollywood's hero bias — or in her words "the racist myth that only a white man can save the world." Her post is a response a big new action film set in China, The Great Wall, which has Matt Damon in the lead role.
The controversy around Asian erasure has flared up around several recent casting decisions; for example: Tilda Swinton as a Tibetan character in Doctor Strange, Scarlett Johansson as the lead in the Japanese anime feature Ghost in the Shell, Emma Stone as an Asian woman in Aloha.
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