DEC. 16 KANSAS CITY, MO. & CARY, N.C.

“The President’s Last Bang,” Im Sang Soo’s controversial and critically acclaimed film that fictionalizes the 1979 night when President Park Chung Hee was assassinated, is scheduled to open in more cities across the country. On the 16th, that includes the Screenland Theatre in Kansas City (located at 1656 Washington) and Galaxy Cinema in Cary (at the Village Square Shopping Center). This “wildly funny whirlwind of anarchy, violence and sex” (Ken Tucker, New York Magazine) then plays at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center beginning Jan. 13, 2006, and Hawaii’s Honolulu Academy of Arts on Jan. 20.

DEC. 25 NATIONWIDE

If your cable or satellite TV service offers ImaginAsian TV, then you just might be able to figure out why Japanese women go crazy for actor Bae Yong Joon. The network that offers 24-hour Asian American-centric programming starts broadcasting the 20 episodes of the Korean drama phenomenon, “Winter Sonata,” which helped Bae become Yonsama, the honorific name the Japanese use for him. “Winter Sonata” will air in Korean with English subtitles.

Check your local listings, or visit www.iatv.com.

COMMUNITY BULLETIN

Scenes from “The President’s Last Bang.”

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a nonprofit based in New York that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans through litigation, advocacy and community education, is offering spring internships for undergraduate, graduate or law school students in the following program areas: Anti-Trafficking Project; Community Health Care Initiative; Economic Justice for Workers; Educational Equity and Youth Rights; Immigrant Access to Justice; Korean Workers Project; Participatory Planning and Community Based Research; South Asian Workers Project; and Voting Rights. Internships are not paid positions, but academic credit can be arranged. The internship, which requires students to work between 8 to 25 hours per week, usually commences with the start of classes, or late January/early February through late April/early May.

To apply, send a resume (any bilingual ability should be stated in the resume; bilingual ability is helpful, but not required) and cover letter to: Spring Intern Search, AALDEF, 99 Hudson Street, 12th floor, New York, NY 10013-2815; or fax to (212) 966-4303, or e-mail info@aaldef.org. For more information, contact Jennifer Weng at (212) 966-5932, ext. 212, or jweng@aaldef.org, or visit www.aaldef.org.

AALDEF is also collaborating with drug maker Pfizer to seek qualified first-year Asian American law school students interested in obtaining experience in a corporate legal environment. Student interns will work in a team environment on a wide range of summer projects in such areas as employment, intellectual property, commercial transactions, regulatory and international law. Applicants should be enrolled as first-year students in an accredited law school and have a minimum GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. The paid internship program runs for approximately 10 to 12 weeks, with a summer stipend as high as $1,800 per week.