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1.21.2010

cherylene lee reads from her memoir just like really


This is a pretty cool event happening next week in San Francisco... Playwright Cherylene Lee, who spent the first part of her life as a child actor in 1960s, will be reading an excerpt from her upcoming memoir Just Like Really. It's next Monday, January 25 at the Center for Asian American Media building. Here are some details:
A Reading of Cherylene Lee's New Memoir JUST LIKE REALLY

The Center of Asian American Media and the 9th Street Independent Film Center presents an evening with Cherylene Lee.

Playwright, Cherylene Lee will read an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, JUST LIKE REALLY, and discuss her life as Chinese American child performer growing up in Hollywood. Visual presentation of photographs and footage from the Las Vegas years and will accompany the reading.

Monday January 25, 2010
7:00pm
145 9th St.
San Francisco, CA
Free Admission
Limited seating please rsvp admin[at]asianamericanmedia[dot]org
Donations to the Center for Asian American Media welcome.

This project was sponsored by a Cultural Equity Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
If you look at Cherlylene Lee's IMDb profile, you'll see she had a fairly substantial list of credits in her young life as an actress, including roles in Flower Drum Song, McHale's Navy and M*A*S*H. I'm looking forward to eventually checking out this book. For more information about the reading, go here.