DIM SUM FUNERAL screened to a packed, cheering festival audience as an Official Selection at the Newport Beach Film Festival.

Director Anna Chi, screenwriter Donald Martin, actors Bai Ling, Kelly Hu and Julia Nickson joined the producing team on stage and at the festival's After Party honoring the film.

"I hope this film will touch the hearts of everyone," said Anna Chi, Director of DIM SUM FUNERAL. Her film tells the story of estranged siblings who reunite at the death of their mother. Funny, bittersweet, quirky, the film has a universal story.

DIM SUM FUNERAL opens June 12 in two theatres, the Laemmle Theatre Sunset 5 in West Hollywood and the Laemmle Theatre in Pasadena. Future screenings to be announced in Orange County, CA. The film is scheduled to be released on DVD by HBO in July.

The STAR TREK movie is receiving rave reviews across the country, and reviving a classic for a whole new generation.

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The STAR TREK movie is receiving rave reviews across the country, and reviving a classic for a whole new generation. Jenny Woo shares ninety-seven of her photographs of the star studded Hollywood premiere.

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Millions of fans worldwide watched the all-star Michael Jackson memorial ceremony today.

Immediately, fans asked on message boards and blogs Who is that Asian girl singlng lead for the song Heal the World? .

The mystery singer is 25 year old Pasadena based vocalist Judith Hill who was recruited to be one of the back-up singers for the now canceled Michael Jackson This Is It! concerts at O2 Arena in London.

Novelist Amy Tan is roasted in good fun by her literary peers as she accepts the third annual Litquake Barbary Coast award. Ben Fong-Torres is a roaster and the Master of Ceremonies.

It was an elegant setting indeed. The Herbst Theatre, part of the San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center has large chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, walls handpainted with frescos, and moulding accented in shimmering gold.

It was a great place for Amy Tan's friends to have fun roasting her before she was presented with her Barbary Coast award, or as Litquake Literary Festival founders Jane Ganahl and Jack Boulware put it, to braise her.

On stage, Ben Fong-Torres, author, broadcaster, rock journalist and all around renaissance man serenaded the guest of honor in his best Elvis. Ben remembers Amy when she was a business writer, before The Joy Luck Club , before 'she became Chinese again.'

What is there to know about Amy besides being a best-selling novelist including The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, Saving Fish from Drowning and The Bonesetter's Daughter ?

If you believe the unruly roasters, she can be funny, quirky, and downright rowdy. She's a dominatrix-style back-up singer with