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Aziz Ansari

Celebrity Stirfry:
Aziz Ansari is Our Boo!

Asian-American comics are all the rage, with Aziz Ansari and Bobby Lee landing major TV deals. Also, Sulu plans a same-sex wedding, MIA threatens retirement, and M. Night is "Happening" at the box office. All this and more in this week's Celebrity Stirfry by Laura Turner Garrison.

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Celebrity Stirfry: Enter the Dancing Dragon

We’ve got our rice radar on the Bruce Lee musical, Kristi Yamaguchi, and Sharon Stone’s gaping wide pie hole By Laura Turner Garrison

If John McCain Is the Manchurian Candidate…

A peek at John McCain’s To Do list (as dictated by his communist brainwashers) should he become President By TMM Editors

Let’s Play Olympic Blackmail!

You thought the Olympic torch had a rough trip through France? Just wait till it hits Asia! By TMM Editors

Celebrity Stirfry: An “Idol” falls, a Fug champion rises

Hot dish on Nan Zhang, Jackie Chan, Bai Ling and more By Laura Turner Garrison

Movie Review: “My Blueberry Nights” is Surprisingly Tasty

It certainly looks and feels like a Wong Kar-wai film, but does “Blueberry Nights” deserve the master’s imprimatur? By Amanda Hamann

Celebrity Stirfry:
Gurus Galore!

Your weekly dish of entertainment news with spicy Asian sauce! By Laura Turner Garrison

Sichuan Alligator and the New Confucius

TMM talks with Jennifer 8. Lee, author of “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles” By Matt Gross

Celebrity Stirfry: Ramiele Malubay Is The Anti-Sanjaya

Your weekly dish of entertainment news with spicy Asian sauce! By Laura Turner Garrison

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trip lit: books & stuff

Interrogating Inspector Chen An interview with Qiu Xiaolong By Megan Shank

Beyond the Kama Sutra Asian Sex Manuals for the 21st Century By TMM editors

Free Food for Millionaires A Review of Min Jin Lee's novel By Camille Lofters

tripwire news

India - Indian group to gift Hanuman idol to Obama

Japan - To combat underage smoking, vending machines to ID crow's feet before dispensing cigarettes

Indonesia - "Tree Man of Java" has bark-like growth removed from limbs; now looking for a lady love to climb his tree

India - Baby girl born with two faces hailed as reincarnation of Hindu goddess Durga—or Lord Voldemort

South Korea - First Korean astronaut (a chick!) blasts off into space; mom faints

Thailand - Are Muay Thai and chicken Panang awesomer than kung fu and Mongolian beef?

Philippines - Forget lad mags, dad mag "Playboy" enters the Filipino market

China - Inside Beijing's shocking death camp for cats

Nepal - Living goddess, age 11, takes early retirement

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