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I remember a similar thing happened when Miss Saigon started on Broadway.  Lea Salonga, who is Philippino, landed the lead role who is suppose to be Vietnamese.  But since it was a musical, she was cast based on her singing talents.  I think afterwards though, everyone agreed she was the right choice to play the lead.

I think people react that way initially, but it is out of pride for that particular culture.  That's not a bad thing.  Usually once people see the film or play, they "get over it".  That's a sign that the actor or actress really did their job, and no one seems to be bothered anymore about ethnicity.  

Oh, I just had another example.  In the new Battlestar Galactic, Boomer is played by an Asian woman.  In the original, he was an African-American man.  Before the show started, everyone was all "what?? That's never going to work."  But with excellent story writing and acting, they pulled it off.

Cynde

Looked on IMDB and people are still mad about the MOAG movie. Hmm, keeping mind I've seen some anti-Memoirs websites, I shouldn't have been too surprised.

Hair stuff: Went to some websites with instructions on how to make fancy buns and I can't do them. I think my length-to-thickness ratio is such that my hair is going to have to be somewhere between waist and hip length before I'll be able to do them successfully. I've tried to make French twists and they don't look very good. Maybe having longer hair would help.

I did try to make the Sailormoon-type hairstyle following the instructions provided by Lisabelle. It *sort of* looked like the one the author of the site made. However, my odangos were a lot bigger and I only had 6 inches of a pigtail coming out of the odango so it looked a bit odd. I think this hairstyle would be easier for people with fine(r) hair. I'll try again in a couple of days--or tomorrow evening--when my hair is dirtier and easier to handle.

I did a search for "odango" and came up with this page.  Is this it?

http://www.iwaynet.net/~sos/odango/odango.html

So CUTE!!!!  I'm gonna try that.  I have a feeling my hair will be too thick or coarse tho.  I can't really do a nape knot either, and it's the same principles.

Cynde

How exciting!  Pictures, pictures!

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Oh yay for you!!!!

Pictures when you are done oogling and drooling please?   

heehee I bet once your mom sees it on you, she'll totally love it. 

Cynde

Khrome--lol! Either that or she'll give me a "Mom Look". On the positive side, I think my grandma would go nuts (in a good way) when she sees the furisode.

Maroula--Thank you and sorry for making you wait for pics. I was doing internet searches and I think there's a few jobs I'm going to apply for.

Tried to do that Sailormoon hairdo again. It worked a bit better, but the odangos still look weird. That's a hard style to make when you have coarse hair that has layers. Can we say tangle city? I should have taken some pictures before I undid everthing. Oh well. Next time.