The early days of Hollywood produced some remarkable women, but Anna May Wong – the Asian-American actress whose “wild and shimmering life” story is told in Katie Gee Salisbury’s Not Your China Doll – was in a class of her own. Wong was the first non-Caucasian Hollywood star, and for decades, the only one from an Asian background. Born in 1905 in Los Angeles’s Chinatown to hard-working parents who owned and ran a laundry business, she began her career as an extra and quickly rose through the ran
FRIDAY AM: Godzilla x Kong: New Empire made $10M in previews according to Warner Bros– the best ever for Legendary Monsterverse beating the first film in the series, 2014’s Godzilla which did $9.3M. There was a lot of walk-up business last night. As we told you last night, the audience score on this is high. …
The Dodgers’ payroll is almost three times more than the four franchises in baseball, and nearly $200 more than the Oakland A’s.