Troubled horizon.
Count the different cracks in US WASP-boy supremacy you can find in 1968’s The Love Bug and Pretty Poison.
(Not to me to have accepted it but Dean Jones and Co. basically apologized for Love Bug’s “Mr. Wu” caricature with a single exchange at the end of Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo in 1977. Jones’s character, Jim Douglas, in the victory circle, tries to give thanks to everyone in as many languages as he sees represented in the group. He finishes by thanking an East Asian photographer in Japanese and bowing. After a beat, the blank-faced journalist responds “Right. See you around, Douglas.” in SoCal-native English.)




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