What’s wrong with Lindsay Price?  She’s had some bad luck because Eastwick is the 4th show that featured Lindsay Price and was canceled.  Ouch!  We want Lindsay to succeed because she’s Korean of course, but man she’s had some tough luck.  She was previously on the supposed can’t miss “Lipstick Jungle,” but the writer’s strike ended up undermining its potential.  Now that’s bad luck.  To make things worse, her boyfriend from “How I Met Your Mother” just dumped her.  Don’t worry Lindsay – your luck will turn around.  For more on Lindsay’s bad luck, go to NY Magazine.

What’s wrong with Oldboy?
Korean movie “Oldboy” is a cult classic and a former winner of the Grand Prix prize at the Cannes Film Festival, so it should be an easy success story when Hollywood gets its chance to remake it. Right?! Apparently not. Stephen Spielberg was trying to make and direct this film with Will Smith in the lead role. It doesn’t get heavier than those two Hollywood heavyweights, but negotiations have broken down with the current rights holder (Mandate) and it’s back to a holding pattern. For the full story, go to the LA Times.

So where’s the best resort in South Korea?

The Hilton Namhae Golf and Spa Resort was named Korea’s leading golf resort and Korea’s leading resort in the 2009 World Travel Awards. The winners are chosen based on votes by travel agencies and tourism experts from around the world.  This is the third year running that the Hilton Namhae Golf and Spa Resort has won the awards in both categories.

Have you noticed the significant increase in Korean-American actors and actresses on TV and movies lately?  Have you noticed there are more men than women in Hollywood?  You would think that there would be more women in front of the camera because let’s be honest, Korean women are great to look at which makes sense in such a visual medium.  Not that the Korean men aren’t studs but who doesn’t like looking at a Korean women?  They are undeniably beautiful women.  Then again, I guess it does take more than just looking good in front of a camera to make it in Hollywood.

This is a an anecdotal story I’m going to share and it does not provide any empirical evidence as to why there are more Korean guys than gals on the screen.  However, it does suggest something.  In my earlier days living in NYC, I roomed with actors and guys who worked at a movie studio.  I was the odd man out because I had a regular job unrelated to the entertainment industry.  I once asked one of my buddies if he ever saw Asian guys out on the audition circuit.  He quickly responded, “Are you kidding me?!  Those guys get more work than most actors out there.”  Huh?! What?  He continued to tell me that though there are only a few roles seeking Asian male faces, there were even less auditioning for them and he suggested that I just give acting a try – even though I had very little acting talent.  Well, to best illustrate this perception, let’s do a quick roll call here.

Ladies on a TV show or in a film in 2009
Smith Cho, Moon Bloodgood, Grace Park, Jamie Chung, Kelly Choi, Margaret Cho, Jenna Ushkowitz, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Price & Yunjin Kim

Guys on a TV show or in a film in 2009
Daniel Henney, Tim Kang, Ken Jeong, Aaron Yoo, John Cho, Rex Lee, C.S. Lee, Justin Chon, Rick Yune, Sung Kang, Rain, Lee Byung Hun, Daniel Dae Kim & James Kyson Lee

We may have missed a few folks but these are the Korean-Americans who were in a prominent role in their film or show.  Now 14 to 10 in favor of the men doesn’t seem like a big difference, but if we were to count up the hours of coverage or viewer impressions, then we would see the greater disparity. We don’t have time to count up every second and sum it all up but here are a couple proxies.

Weekly TV program comparison: Tim Kang, Ken Jeong, Rex Lee, John Cho, C.S. lee, Daniel Dae Kim and James Kyson Lee are in key roles on current weekly network television shows.

Movies: Only Moon Bloodgood and Jamie Chung were in big screen films this year versus John Cho, Aaron Yoo, Ken Jeong, Justin Chon, Rick Yune and Sung Kang.  And don’t forget that Hollywood is really gambling with Ninja Assassins and the predominantly Korean cast with Rain as the lead role.

So what are we trying to say?  Simple observations suggest that America is becoming more accepting of the Asian male and there are more opportunities for them.  But what about the ladies?  My conclusion is that there’s that much more competition on the female side of the fence where they’re competing against more open non-ethnic/racial specific roles.  Though they may be going on casting calls for Asian-American woman between 25-30, they’re also going on casting calls for (all) women between 25-30.  I thoroughly root for all the Korean women on the big and small screen, but I wish there were more of them up there.   Don’t you?

Are you as old as me and remember the movie Witches of Eastwick?  Some of you are saying, what’s that?  Well, it’s a famous novel and movie way before the millennium and starred Jack Nicholson in the movie.  The novel was first published in the mid-80s and was authored by John Updike.   Soonafter it was recreated for the big screen.  Well it’s finally coming to network television and ABC will be serving up another women’s friendship show because it’s already captured the Desperate Housewives demographic.  Lindsay Price who is of Korean descent will be co-starring in this show along with Jaime Ray Newman, Rebecca Romijn and Paul Gross.  She’s coming off her previous TV show, the short lived Lipstick Jungle.  You may not be to familiar with Lindsay Price but she has been in daytime TV soap operas and other network shows.

Lindsay Price has been a staple on network television since her starring role as Janet Sosna on Beverly Hills, 90210. Born to parents of European and Asian decent, she started acting at the age of eight with a guest role on “Finder of Lost Loves.”

In 1991 Price she took on a two-year recurring role on All My Children. She then appeared in The Bold and the Beautiful, from 1995-1997, followed by her role on Beverly Hills, 90210. She also had a string of guest starring roles in several hit series, including CSI, Becker, Jack and Jill, Coupling, Frasier and Pepper Dennis. Price recently stared alongside Brooke Shields and Kim Raver in the NBC series Lipstick Jungle, based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, as Victory Ford, a free-spirited designer in search of Mr. Right.

Film credits include the independent films “Lonely Street” and “Waterbourne,” and she recently completed production on the feature film “Happy Thank You More Please.” A talented singer/songwriter, Price’s song, “Someone Like Me,” played over the last scene in the finale of Lipstick Jungle.

On Eastwick, Lindsay Price plays the character Joanna Frankel. Joanna just wishes she could shut her mouth sometimes, especially as the most inappropriate words spill out at the most inappropriate times. But Darryl tells this uptight, bespectacled reporter that, if she would just look someone straight in the eye, she can give a proper voice to what she wants… and get it. To her shock, it works – namely on her longtime crush, Will. But is it real?

So what’s Eastwick all about?

“Men and women and sex are a big part of the show,” Friedman says of “Eastwick,” which stars Lindsay Price, Jaime Ray Newman, Rebecca Romijn and Paul Gross, and kicks off Sept. 23 at 10 p.m. on ABC. “And there’s always a lot of interest in that.”

The novel — about a coven of divorced women in a seaside Rhode Island village and the wealthy, devilish figure who moves to town and captivates all three of them — has been called both the author’s angriest, most violent novel and “Updike with his shoes off.”

Now these ladies come to you on ABC on Wednesday Night.  Check out Lindsay Price on Eastwick.

So which Korean actors were at the Emmys on Sunday night?  Hmmmm?!  How about Sandra Oh who was nominated for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Grey’s Anatomy.  Rex Lee who plays Lloyd on HBO’s Entourage.  And of course there was the Korean couple from ABC’s Lost: Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjin Kim.   Here are a few video clips from TV Guide’s coverage of the Emmy’s.  And the beauty Lindsay Price graced the red carpet, who is formerly of Lipstick Jungle and now the new show Eastwick.