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June 22 - 28, 2001

Backstage with Gedde Watanabe

Photo by Ji Hyun Lim.
By Ji Hyun Lim

Visions of awkward teens in braces, rolling eyes, and hyper-dramatic attitude abound in John Hughes’ coming-of-age cult film Sixteen Candles. Ahh, the 1980s and those painful images of adolescence are hard to shake off even now. Gedde Watanabe has a distinct set of scars from his role in the film. Watanabe is still identified and iconized as Long Duk Dong, the bowl-haired, accent-ridden foreign exchange student who stays with Sam’s family. There’s even a Web site for this caricature. “It’s very funny. It’s flattering,” Watanabe laughs.

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