The Landmark Asian-American Musical That Never Got Its Oscar Due

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Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, a look back at 1961's Flower Drum Song, a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that was the first major Hollywood film to star an almost entirely Asian and Asian-American cast— and the last one for decades. Plus, updates on the status of the WGA strike and a look at promising series Yellowjackets and A Small Light.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Little Goldman, the award season podcast from Vanity Bear.
0:05.0	I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner.
0:10.0	And the Oscar goes to.
0:12.0	And the Oscar goes to the winner.
0:16.0	It's a tie.
0:19.0	And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the telly, you never know.
0:25.0	My.
0:26.0	I just want an Oscar.
0:36.0	I am Katie Rich.
0:37.0	I'm here with Richard Lawson.
0:38.0	Hello.
0:39.0	With David Canfield.
0:40.0	Hi.
0:41.0	And with Rebecca Ford.
0:42.0	Hi.
0:43.0	We have more strike updates for you as the writer strike enters its second week.
0:47.0	And some of the confusing questions for last week have been resolved.
0:50.0	And there's also more confusion to share.
0:52.0	We want to talk about some new TV shows that are out as the Emmy eligibility window ends,
0:57.0	but there's still good stuff to talk about.
0:59.0	And then in honor of AAPI Heritage Month, we're going to do an Oscar flashback
1:03.0	to Flower Drum Song, the 1961 musical that had an entirely Asian cast,
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