When Jang Ja-yeon killed herself at her home earlier last month, she did more than deprive South Korea of a wildly popular soap star. In a damning letter naming the men responsible for the distress that may have caused her to take her life aged 26, Jang heaped shame on the country’s entertainment industry with allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation.
In the seven-page letter, written a week before her death, the star of BOYS OVER FLOWERS, South Korea’s most avidly watched soap opera, chronicled the sexual and other favors she was expected to extend to progress in the cutthroat “Korean Wave” of TV and film.
INTERVIEW: Y&R's Clementine Ford (Mac)Ford tells Michael Fairman at Advocate.com: "When I did the TV Guide interview I was angry because there is the whole perception now that I came out and I went back in. And what upset me was, I felt that because I did not 'come out' in that interview, I felt it was unfair to fans that bought the magazine expecting to get a tearful story that says 'I’m gay.' I thought it was misleading, and now because I was upset by that cover, I am apparently back in the closet and people hate me. Look, I am gay, and I just wanted there not to be this big emphasis on it."
N.Y. tax program gets one more year
Final score on the future of New York's production tax credit program: film 1, TV 0. A new $350 million in tax credits are due to be signed into the budget by Gov. David Paterson today, but the program is guaranteed to continue only for one year. Some biz-friendly lawmakers and industry leaders are worried that the extension to the tax credit program won't be enough to keep up the crucial influx of TV shows into New York. That limitation could prove much more harmful in 2009-10 than it would have in previous fiscal years.
JENNIFER GIBBONS: The Light Might Be Dimming"If GUIDING LIGHT is canceled, no doubt I’ll mourn. In fact, I’ll even celebrate. How many shows stayed as long as it did? How many television shows can be passed down from generation to generation? It lasted through fourteen presidents, real-life drama that was at times frightening. Yet it lasted, so far for seventy-two years. And if that isn’t a legacy, I don’t know what is."
Turns Out People Aren’t Overly Outraged When It Comes To Lesbian Television Kisses
"Channel Seven says it has received fewer than 30 telephone calls nationally after screening the controversial 'lesbian kiss' episode of teen soapie HOME AND AWAY.
A Seven spokeswoman said last night that the calls were evenly split between those supporting the broadcast of the kiss and those raising concerns."
No comments:
Post a Comment