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May 6, 2005
Bai Ling in Playboy, but not Star Wars

It doesn't rival Zhang Ziyi's appearence on Newsweek's cover, but fellow actress Bai Ling says that she was cut out of the upcoming Star Wars: Episode III after she agreed to appear wearing just a light saber in Playboy.

Star Wars creator George Lucas says Bai's scene was cut from the movie a year ago, long before her Playboy shoot. I'm not sure how much more revealing her Playboy spread can be; in almost almost every photo I've seen of her, she's got cleavage hanging out everywhere.

She's the current Asian "dragon lady" for Hollywood, and I guess she was hoping for a career bump from Playboy, but it apparently The Force was not with her.

Posted by harry at May 6, 2005 1:27 PM


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she's just 'working an angle' like so many other 'starlets'. you really must stop thinking that some higher order of DNA or mental fortitude is more inherent in asians than any other group. equality means that along with equal opportunity for the good, there is equal opportunity for the bad. opportunism knows no border.

Posted by: a questioner... at May 7, 2005 7:55 PM

In general, there IS a genetically attributable superiority suggested both statistically and empirically for certain mental and cognitive tasks. Given, that would also include survival disadvantages in a number of other areas. Being too politically correct stifles honest discourse.

Posted by: rohit at May 8, 2005 11:59 AM

rohit, you haven proven the falsehood of your theory with the idiocy of that statement. it has been proven scientifically that humans, across the commonly defined racial groups, are much, much, much more similar than they are different. and the point I was making, beyond 'mental and cognitive tasks', is that it should come as no surprise that a chinese or vietnamese or indian or 'your ethnic group name here' actress or actor would seek to take advantage of publicity to further their career even if most people saw the particular action as less than noble. history does not bear out your theory rohit. and how, pray tell, would these allegedly superior mental and cognitive task skills lead to inherent 'survival disadvantages' in a number of other areas?

Posted by: a questioner... at May 8, 2005 7:13 PM

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