Love or Something or Other
In the supermarket the other night (sensing a theme developing here at BPR?), my wife picked up an US Weekly and exclaimed “Keanu Reeves and China Chow are dating!”
My first question was, I wonder if they discuss their racial identity, you know, given the fact that they are both multi-racial with Chinese heritage. This would likely make Keanu Reeves the biggest celebrity to ever be in a public Asian American romantic relationship. What a nerd I am.
I browsed the Internets for some evidence and I came across some, uhh, NSFW pieces of proof. Unfortunately, I am at W, so those pictures would be NSF me to link to. That’s why I put up that photo of Keanu, rather than of the newly-minted couple.
(Aside to IT department: I swear it was an accident.)
But yeah, it kind of got me thinking. What other Asian American relationships have we seen among prominent people? Rick Yune and Lisa Ling? Ming-Na and Eric Michael Zee? Helen Zia and Lia Shigemura? Dustin Nguyen and Angela Rockwood? Who am I missing?
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Hmm. I’m at a loss… What about when Yul Kwon got engaged recently? His fiance is Asian American.
What do you mean by prominent?
Grace Park (of Battlestar Galactica and West 32nd fame) is married to Phil Kim, who isn’t very prominent.
i dunno what i mean.
btw isn’t “grace park” and “phil kim” like the two most common names among korean folks. i know like 3 guys named phil kim.
If we count Kiwi, Bambu, and Geo as prominent, then they count too right?
i don’t know. i think what i was thinking at the time that i wrote it was how often are there two romantic partners who are both known/accomplished in their respective fields at the time that they connect?
so in that sense, no we wouldn’t include any of those guys.
but i feel like such a nerd writing out my conditions for a prominent couple, which is why i avoided it in the first place.
oh eugene, why hast thou forsaken blah blah blah…
Salman Rushdie / Padma Laksmi (living in NYC = asian american in my book)
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Wow. This is hard.
They got divorced.
OH YEAH, rushdie/lakshmi! that is a good one because they come from such different fields! oh i guess they did split tho…
Yah - divorced. But for a heartbeat, it was the talk of the nation.
How about Jessica Hagedorn / John Woo?
(Just kidding. Different John Woo).
my heart skipped a beat…
so they’re a couple? (i know not THAT john woo…)
Yeah - they are/were. My Asian American gossip is kind of old though…