Does ATL have an anti-Asian bias? Why hasn't it featured this Yale Law (Boies assoc / prof) power couple?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/fashion/weddings/15FAN.html?_r=1&ref=style&oref=slogin

10:56 - LEWW hasn't reached that week yet.

After having watched "I Love New York" (yes I am admitting to it), it's no wonder he was asked to leave. That just screams, "look at me, look at me", and certainly not in a good way.

Only reason I watch: it's fun to see grown me fight over a woman that looks like a man :-)

"How many HLS grads and Sidley Austin alums make it into the pages of Us Weekly?"

I believe Michelle Obama was extensively covered in last week's issue.

"There was a rumor that Sidley encouraged Otunga to leave the firm, after learning of his participation in I Love New York 2, and now he's having the last laugh. How many Biglaw associates, current or former, are dating Oscar winners?"

While Barack only won a Grammy, Michelle is married to the current front-runner for the presidency.

Isn't J-Hud fat and ugly?
How is that good for David "punk" Otunga?

10:56, I'm Asian and I wouldn't call ATL not featuring that an Asian bias. I'd call it an ugly bias. Those two people are hideous. The bridegroom does not look "29". He looks like he's 40 and been hit in the face by a truck.

11:08 -- props on the quick comebacks.

Jennifer Hudson is obese, and her career has already peaked.

HLS rejected me. :(

Her Oscar win for "Dreamgirls" was more about her amazing singing than her acting.

That said, I enjoyed her performance in "Sex and the City."

Occasionally abovethelaw really steps up. This is one of those occasions.

Unbelievably unimportant given the state of the legal market and the treatment being meted out to numerous associates. Hard hitting legal reporting at its very best!

slow day huh

11:20, if you have a tip, send it in to ATL by email.

You can also post it on AutoAdmit, Greedy Associates, etc. This isn't the only forum.

11:10. Good call, not good looking at all. Maybe at a piano recital.

11:08 - I wasn't aware that Barak Obama had won a grammy. Wow, he's been busy.

I would be embarrassed dating a fattie like J-Hud.

The guy is a fitness nut and is dating a whale? Sounds like he's using her for press attention.

11:10 AM,

i wouldn't necessarily call the couple ugly per se, but they definitely have not aged well. They look rather old.

I was shocked to learn that the bride was only 29 and the bridegroom was 33. Both of them look well into their 40s.

i guess that's the price you pay for obtaining prestige though. A lot of i-bankers and big firm lawyers in NYC have aged badly.

My supervisor at the firm i worked at was only 28, but he was balding, had winkles on his face, and had graying hair. Then again, maybe he's 48 years old pretending to be 28?

A lot of these prestigious high powered Wall Street types look very old for their age. Yeah, their millionaires by the time they hit 30, but they're balding, overweight, and look like they aged 20 - 25 years instead of 5 to 10.

Again, that's the price you pay for prestige. You gain prestige, power, respect, and money, but you look like you're 50 when you should be only in your late 20s, early 30s.

10:56 I think it's because they are both ugly.

This is 11:08 and 11:10(1). Thanks for all the agreement everyone. I'm glad this ugliness is universal here. I'm very underimpressed by the people that are deemed attractive here. We shouldn't go by lawyer standards, we should go by normal people standards.

11:41 AM,

Lawyers are NOT beautiful people (w/ few exceptions, there are some attractive female lawyers, but they have good genes and/or are probably rich and have personal trainers, etc.). We don't date lawyers b/c they are attractive.

if you want to see attractive people, work in the public relations or education industry. Both the PR and education industries have some very hot women.

people date lawyers because of financial security. It's all about the benjamins (and mentally, I'm stuck in the 90s).

I thought asians were supposed to age well. They are really probably like 110.

11:50 AM,

Yeah, that's one of the many "positive" stereotypes of Asians (in addition to them being super smart, attend only pretigious schools, only work in prestigious white collar jobs, and being healthier and wealthier than anybody else), but yup, that couple doesn't age very well.

Everybody thinks that Asians are like this perfect race: intelligent, wealthy, prestigious, a race comprised of only elite individuals who age well and are physically healthy.

I guess this couple breaks the stereotype that Asians were supposed to age well. They could be 110 for all we know. Realistically, I suspect that they are really in their 40s, maybe even 50s (seriously, look at the photos and tell me you don't think they look at least in their 40s).

what high performing elite asian man starts his first lawyer job at age 33, nevermind 50? in my day asian kids finished law school by the time they were twenty and made partner by 25.

also... Mary De Ming Fan's parents surely flipped their shit when she brought Dean Noboru Kawamoto around for dinner.

yeah, I remember my FOBby parents say that back in their day, Chinese kids were supposed to be millionaires by age 25.

Not only were we supposed to be academic superstars, but we were supposed to be financially set and be able to retire by the age of 30.

Things change though. I was watching a news segment on a struggling middle class JAPANESE American couple. Granted, it's in Hawaii, but it's really the first time that I saw a struggling middle class Japanese American couple. The father was a small business owner, the mother a teacher. They talk about how prices in Hawaii were so high that they had to cut so much from their budget. They're worried about living paycheck to paycheck.

Again, this is the first time I really saw a portrait of a struggling middle class Asian American couple. Everybody assumes that Chinese, Japanese, Korean people are perfect in every way and never experience any kind of problems.

She says she likes dinosaur movies, thats good b/c her husband's head looks like a brontosaurus

Dating a fat chick just because she's famous. Yeah, he's quite the success.

NYSouthernGirl, I envy you. Life must be so much less disappointing when you've got such low standards.

12:30, does insulting people from HLS make you feel better about the fact that you didn't get in?

Gee, that's mature. Actually I did go to HLS, and was disappointed by lack of eye candy, although I can't admit that I really expected there to be much, as I was already familiar with the term "Harvard Goggles" from college. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of great guys at HLS, but the greatness is mostly on the inside. I know David, though, and I agree with the quote in the post - he is a very nice guy, and definitely a lot better-looking than most of his male classmates.

1:32, as a Harvard College/HLS grad, I want to say that the term "Harvard Goggles" was rarely used in Cambridge. If you did attend for both college/HLS, you must have hung out in a very small sect, one in which you actually did bandy that term around? How sad.

Thinking back to the guys we had walking around the square, I have to agree that there were plenty of good-looking and nice guys on campus. What's your type? Unless you're attracted to unintelligent and unathletic guys, not sure what you're complaining about.

"In September, she is to be an assistant professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That flushing sound is the sound of her career.

He's the black K-Fed.

"In September, she is to be an assistant professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law" - query whether she left her email account open on the public access computer at AU while she was interviewing. Makes oral sex in the law library even less inviting (unless you are visually impaired).

A maintenance engineer is not a janitor. Maintenance engineer plan the routine maintenance of plant, equipment and machinery. They also attend breakdowns, diagnose faults and oversee time-critical repairs.

Pacific Reporter, you're a janitor

4:07, we always called the janitor when we had those problems at school.

Why are there so many posts about the wrong topic here? It's about Punk. Are y'all really lawyers or just dingbats?

It was pretty obvious watching the show that Punk is gay, so he probably doesn't mind being married to an obese whale.

J-Hud's like a moped. Fun to ride one. But wouldn't want your buds to know that you're riding one.

Oh the rants of the dim-witted.

The majority of you are rambling on about things that have nothing to do with the topic of this article. You morons aren't lawyers, and if you are, you're probably ambulance chasers. Besides, if you really were lawyers, I'm pretty sure you'd have more important things to do than hate on people who could care less if you ceased to inhale another bit of oxygen that could go to someone much more important. Now returning to the issue at hand, I wish both Punk and Jennifer Hudson well.

I can't believe so many of you idiots are calling Jennifer Hudson OBESE! Do you even know the definition of the word?? The woman doesn't even look obese and she probably looks better in a bathing suit than most of you. Here's some clarification: Ruben Studdard, Kathy Bates, Rosie O'Donnell=OBESE. JHud has a LONG way to go to obese.

The only thing that Jennifer Hudson has going for her is the fact that she won an Oscar. And she won the Oscar based on her singing ability rather than her acting ability. She isn't the most physically beautiful woman in the world: I saw a recent photo of her and David Otunga and she has cellulite galore. She definitely can lose about 25 lbs and tone up. You know, it really doesn't match when you pair her up with a guy like David- exceptionally attractive as well as physically fit. Plus, I'm hearing she never attended college and he is well-educated. He can do better because if you take away her Oscar, you have the average black woman from the hood.

If this is true, I wish them all the happiness in the world. I have to admit, though, it always puzzled me why a Harvard educated man would go on a show like "I Love New York", to pursue a loud-mouthed woman without an ounce of class or femininity. He is clearly very intelligent...it had to be for publicity.
I also want to say how sad it is that some of the people who have posted to this article have made cruel and hurtful comments about Jennifer Hudson's weight. It is so unfortunate that we're in a society that continues to be obsessed with weight, and feel the need to put people down who don't fit societal ideals. How dare you say that David Otunga (Punk) would be better off with a more in-shape woman, because he is physically fit? How is that your choice or your business. Maybe he thinks she's beautiful the way she is. What's it to you?

Guest (8/26/08)
If David pursued NY for publicity as you implied, he very well could be pursuing Jennifer Hudson for the very same reason. To you, NY appears to be loud and lacks class. To others, Jennifer Hudson appears to be unattractive. I guess everyone is entitled to their own opinion about it.

I am appalled by the racism and ignorance of some posters here. Maybe I'm naive but I seriously thought they weren't any racist "learned friends" out there. Some of you should be ashamed of yourselves. You disgust me........... Ok, I'm going to the gym!

hey you calling JH fat,ugly and obessed, i guess your dinginly is less than 4 inches and if you're a lady you stink and perhaps ypu're not satisfied with your man, you guys wish to have or belike JH.
BASTARDS!!!

I can say that you people that called J hud all those names are straight HATERS. your mad becasue with out a Degree she is a Oscar winner, and great singer. So do me a favor stay in your trailer home and keep doing nothing with your life clearly you dont have a life if you have to knock someone else just to feel better about your self and by the way i bet you or your mamma are morbidly FAT.

I can say that you people that called J hud all those names are straight HATERS. your mad becasue with out a Degree she is a Oscar winner, and great singer. So do me a favor stay in your trailer home and keep doing nothing with your life clearly you dont have a life if you have to knock someone else just to feel better about your self and by the way i bet you or your mamma are morbidly FAT.