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Celeb Birthdays For The Week Of May 13-19
msnbc.com 3 weeks, 1 day agoMay 13: Actor Buck Taylor ("Gunsmoke," "Gods and Generals") is 74. Actor Harvey Keitel is 73. Actor Franklyn Ajaye is 63. Actress Zoe Wanamaker ("Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone") is 63. Singer Stevie Wonder is 62. Comedian Stephen Colbert ("The Colbert Report") is 48. Drummer John Richardson of The Gin Blossoms is 48. Actor Tom Verica ("American Dreams") is 48. Country singer Lari White is 47. Singer Darius Rucker of Hootie and the Blowfish is 46. Drummer Andy Williams of Casting Crowns is 40. Bassis
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Beyond Apu
slate.com 4 weeks agoPopchips pulled an advertising campaign today, in which Ashton Kutcher plays an Indian character named Raj, after a flurry of complaints that the ads were racist. In a Culturebox column originally published in 2010, Nina Rastogi wrote about the rising number of South Asians on television and their depiction. The original piece is reprinted below.
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