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Degree Deoderent Promotion
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ID # 35519
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Live Event
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SRN
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Montpelier |
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Non-union
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n/a
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05-29-06
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12-31-69
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06-02-06
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12-31-69
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Trade Shows/Live Events/Promo Model
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We are currently booking a nationwide promotion for Ladies Degree Deoderent.
Must be very outgoing, professional, and above all – RELIABLE. The promotion dates are June 3rd, and 4th and June 10th from 11am to 5:30pm. You must be available for all dates and times to be selected for this job.
This is a self-response notification (SRN).
SUBMIT ONLY if you fit the role criteria.
NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
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We are looking for women between the ages of 20 and 40 up to a dress size 12.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Female
Age: from 20 to 40
Ethnicity: Any -
Hair Color: Any -
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As minorities' numbers have grown, so has their ability to make their voices heard when they feel humor slips into insult It's just a funny show Race debate continues in comedy
Sep 17, 11:30 AM EST
Aki Aleong's stomach churned as he watched the Fox comedy game show, the one with the nerdy Asian businessman wearing thick glasses and the karate-chopping martial arts master screaming "Banzai!"
Paul Noble watched the same show but saw something else "
Whites are "the majority " Aleong watched the show with Fox officials before it aired and voiced his complaints to them "
Aleong, an actor and president of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, feels the same way about "Banzai
In the end, every group seems to take its lumps from some comedian
"Obviously black people can get away with saying things about white people that white people couldn't be saying about black people," Maher said "
But some Hispanics have told him they don't like the title of the strip, or the way the characters dress in flannel shirts and baggy pants, Alcaraz said "It's either we have thick accents or we're Jimmy Smits, detective," he said, "and there's no in-between Hughley But these days an almost universal target seems to be white people "
"There's always the chance that somebody is going to be offended," Hughley said To him, it was a fresh, funny program with great stunts, like two men jousting while riding shopping carts I'm saying, 'Where is the balance?' You can poke fun at people, you can ridicule them, but please show some balance
"I like the challenges, the innovation of it all," said Noble, a white man who lives in Ashburn, Va
Phil Yu, author of a Weblog titled Angry Asian Man, said he supports Phan's work because Phan is Asian, "in a profession where there are very few Asians "It's always a component "I certainly don't base my opinion on Asia down to this one show " But some also fear Phan may be seen as "just this funny guy who does this accent," he said
Alcaraz said his goal is to puncture stereotypes The National Association of Hispanic Journalists warned that "humor and satire are not safe hiding places for ignorance and bigotry
Once, minorities like Aleong, a Chinese-American, might have silently winced about being the butt of jokes on a network program â€â€? in this case, the Fox summer show "Banzai!"
Not anymore "
Political satirist Bill Maher agrees there is a double standard when it comes to race and comedy â€â€? but he says it's easy to see why "
Sikh groups demanded Miramax remove a scene in the movie "Dysfunktional Family" in which a man wearing a turban is called Osama bin Laden
The Vanity Fair column provoked a scathing letter from Mexican-born actress Salma Hayek, who was on the magazine's cover "
Fox says the show, which originally aired in Britain, was a parody of Japanese game shows
Race in comedy "is just like race in everyday situations," said comedian D "White seems to be a free for all "
Hughley, who is black, has often joked about the differences between blacks and whites "
Racial scrutiny can also extend to what comedians say about their own ethnic groups
But that doesn't mean comedians will stop treading the line between the two It "shouldn't be viewed as anything more than what it is â€â€? a very different kind of game show," Fox said in a statement, adding that it has been a leader in promoting Asian-American talent "
But for some, the issue went beyond advice dispensed by a guy in drag The Asian characters were just part of the backdrop L I'm obviously open-minded enough to realize it's not like that He's joked about introducing himself to a Vietnam veteran as "Charlie" and used his own name as fodder, quipping "It's pretty hot in here "Black people should be able to do things we don't get to do, because of all the things we did to them that they didn't do to us "I think there's extra sensitivity to how we're portrayed in a magazine or in a situation comedy because there's such a void there "
"Banzai" was only the latest in a series of recent incidents in which comedians looking for laughs got criticism instead We're the culture that has run the show," Maher said
In February, some Hispanics were outraged after a satirical Vanity Fair advice column counseled against learning Spanish, asking, "Who speaks it that you are really desperate to talk to? The help? Your leaf blower? Study French or German, where there are at least a few books worth reading, or, if you're American, try English " But Alcaraz says his characters are regular people "in their mid 20s, and they're just working and doing their thing
Mexican-American cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz, whose nationally syndicated "La Cucaracha" strip provides a biting view of the world through the eyes of its Hispanic characters, said that in humor, "anything goes
"Lots of times, Latinos are invisible in the pages of magazines," said Joseph Torres, the association's spokesman For instance, he once observed that blacks, unlike whites, don't enjoy bungee jumping because "that's too much like lynching for us But "all I saw were geeky Asian guys, nerdy guys "I got to the punch line before they could," he said "
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Vietnamese-Americ an comedian Dat Phan has turned painful experiences into comic material with a racial undercurrent And some blacks said a character who poked fun at civil rights icons in the movie "Barbershop" last year was disrespectful but if they see what I'm seeing, then chances are I'll get a laugh So of course whites "are going to be a big target
"We can take a joke," Aleong said They don't have to agree with me, or like it, or understand it But "I want people to see what I'm seeing Can you turn on dat fan over there?"
Phan figures that, by poking fun at himself, he turns the table on people like the classmates who picked on him in school "
The magazine apologized, saying the remarks of entertainer Barry Humphries, in the guise of Dame Edna, "were meant to satirize stereotypes, not reinforce them
"It's almost OK to say something about your own race and whites, but you can't cross over to a different race," said Pam Geroianni, a "Banzai" fan who is Hispanic
