Ep 12 of 12: Heroes and Villains
Strangeland
Audiochuck | Western Sound
4.2 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It is my sweet, my normal, by sweet karma, my sweet karma. |
| 0:09.8 | This is a tape performance of a play called Sweet Karma by Henry Aong. |
| 0:14.3 | It ran for five years and was performed in New York, Los Angeles, and Long Beach. |
| 0:18.5 | Now, the American! |
| 0:20.5 | No more rich, no more poor, everyone is equal. |
| 0:25.0 | Join Amkara in building a new society. |
| 0:29.0 | Sweet karma tells a story of a fictional character named Dr. Vichia Lamb, who survives the |
| 0:35.4 | Khmer Rouge and wins an Oscar, only to be shot down in the streets of LA. |
| 0:40.8 | That obviously sounds familiar. |
| 0:44.0 | Henry Young wrote the play to be a dramatization of Hang's life, |
| 0:47.5 | but he wasn't interested in telling the sanitized version. |
| 0:50.3 | So he was forced to change the name of his main character. |
| 0:54.3 | So Fianor, Heng's niece, threatened to sue Aung if he didn't. |
| 0:58.3 | She objected to scenes that painted her uncle in the negative lights, like |
| 1:01.9 | scenes of Heng having sex with lots of women, including |
| 1:05.2 | those gynecology patients. |
| 1:08.0 | The source material Henry Ong used for his script was Hangnor's own autobiography, which detailed lots of other questionable behavior like manipulation, harassment, and emotional volatility. |
| 1:19.0 | But over time, Hang has become so revered, especially since his death. His negative personality traits have |
| 1:26.5 | been wallpapored over. Hang's sainthood is something zealously guarded by Sophia Noor, who served as the LAPD's key source of |
| 1:36.4 | information and the prosecutor's main character witness. |
| 1:40.9 | And we can't help but wonder if this whitewashed image of Hang Nor compromise the LAPDs |
| 1:46.1 | investigation from the beginning. |
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