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Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want*
- 2000 ----- color ----- 96 min ----- vhs
- (Written and performed by Margaret Cho, directed by Lionel Coleman) An extraordinary documentary of Margaret Cho's triumphant return to her hometown, San Francisco, and her one-woman show at the Warfield Theatre. Along the way she details her rise, fall and rebirth after barely living through All-American Girl, a TV sitcom based (?) on her Korean-American family. [The producer calls her after the first day's taping in a panic that her face is too broad for American TV. Hello!] Alternately poignant and hilarious materials tackles the double standard that women--especially minority women--face in the entertainment industry. [Letterboxed] (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)
- Topics: (American Ethnic Studies: Asian-American, Biography, Discrimination, Drama, Motion Pictures: Comedy, Women Studies)
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