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Carl Robinson, a former Associated Press photo editor in Saigon, alleges that the bureau's chief of photos Horst Faas had ordered him to change credit for the image and "make it Nick Ut". In the 2025 documentary film The Stringer , directed by Bao Nguyen , a group of journalists and investigators claim that the 'Napalm Girl' photograph was ...
Miss Saigon is a sung-through stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera Madama Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover.
[5] [6] The Miss Saigon casting controversy was the source of much public interest in 1990 as the Miss Saigon debate made it to the front pages of The New York Times 8 times in August 1990. [5] Editorials in the Los Angeles Times , The Washington Post , USA Today , and The Wall Street Journal published over the course of one week in August 1990 ...
Carla Guevara-Laforteza (born December 26, 1975) is a Filipino musical theater actress of performances in both local and international productions. [1] She is known for her role as Kim/Gigi in Miss Saigon in West End in the 1990s. [2]
Forty years later, the images remain searing: Throngs of desperate South Vietnamese civilians trying to scale the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.
In 1990 a turning point came for her career. Honda had auditioned for a part in the Tokyo production of Broadway play Miss Saigon, she won out over 15,000 other candidates for the part of Kim. [4] While still starring in the role as Kim in Miss Saigon in the 1990s, Honda visited Vietnam.
Kim Porter’s sudden passing remains a mystery.Even after an autopsy was completed, the actress’ cause of death was listed as “deferred,” according to a death certificate obtained by Us Weekly.
Salonga rose to international recognition in 1989 after starring as Kim in the original West End production of Miss Saigon, [5] a role she later reprised when the musical transferred to Broadway in 1991. [6] A documentary entitled The Heat Is On, which details the creation and casting process of the original production, was filmed and released ...