"Cradle 2 the Grave" will, however, be a box office hit, I imagine, and that will be demographically interesting because it demonstrates that a savvy producer like Silver now believes a white star is completely unnecessary in a mega-budget action picture. At one point, there were only white stars. Then they got to have black buddies. Then they got to have Asian buddies. Then "Rush Hour" proved that black and Asian buddies could haul in the mass audience. Long ago a movie like this used a black character for comic relief. Then an Asian character. Now the white character is the comic relief. May the circle be unbroken.

just last night i was watching jeopardy, and the contestants were 2 white guys and 1 white lady - all middle-aged. the guys were from bellingham, wa and brooklyn, ny and i can't remember where the lady's from. anyway, the point is that there was this category, "Yale Drama School" and they were able to answer most of the questions, where the answer was sigourney weaver or meryl streep, they were stumped on some other ones. one was a visual clue and all they had to do was get the name of the actor - which was david alan grier (think in living color). the other clue was something like "she "got her groove back" studying...blah blah" and it's angela bassett. there was bewildered confusion on the faces of all 3 contestants. and in light of having watched undercover brother just the other day, i found this review by roger ebert amusing. so, may minorities continue to make strides into mainstream america and may the asian kids keep on keepin' on and doing the whole "movin' on up" thing. :D