The cover of the August 31, 1987 edition of the magazine, that is. Seems that Masi Oka was one of the smart kids pictured on the cover of that issue of Time, the one titled "Those Asian-American Whiz Kids." Oka is on the left, with the blue shirt and the backpack.
The story came to light on Monday night's episode of Late Night With Conan O'Brien. Oka was a guest on the show, and Conan surprised the Heroes star by showing him a copy of the magazine. The picture was taken by the parent of one of his friends.
As we told you a while back, Oka went on to work for George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic, and actually still works there part time (as far as I know). When he started there out of college, he actually had something in his contract about his movie career.
Anyone have a copy of this issue? Could be a cool collectible. Everyone rush over to ebay starting right....now.
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11-22-2006 @ 1:52PM
Jash said...
Does anyone find it odd that the photo is all East Asian children. Does TIME not consider Indians to be Asian?
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11-22-2006 @ 2:37PM
SJ said...
'Asian' in America usually means someone of East-Asian descent. I'm Pakistani and people in America never usually lump me in the same category as "Asians".
Even the Middle East is part of Asia, but nobody considers Arabs to be Asians.
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11-22-2006 @ 4:21PM
Griffey said...
I might. If the article wasn't 20 years old. It's only recently census-wise that Indians have been considered asian.
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11-22-2006 @ 7:48PM
M said...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lChUFm_kHQ8
Youtube link to the interview.
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