The recent outrage among Chinese Americans about Miley Cyrus’ “slant-eyed” picture scandal went wholly unnoticed here on the mainland, so I was inspired to bring Jackie Chan’s recent comments about freedom for Chinese people to the attention of my Chinese college students and report about it here.
Jackie Chan is being courted for the lovable role of karate teacher “Mr. Myagi” in an upcoming remake of the 1984 film The Karate Kid.
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Jackie Chan has been immortalized in wax. A wax figure of the action star was unveiled at Madame Tussauds in New York City on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
What’s Jackie Chan been up to lately, you ask? Well, he’s definitely staying busy…
Take just last night, for instance. According to an Associated Press story, Chan jumped on stage and demanded a duet with Jonathan Lee, a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, in the middle of a concert.
In addition to demanding a duet, Chan also reportedly tried to direct the band (which tried several times to stop playing entirely), insulted members of the audience when they began heckling him, and (just in case it was unclear) announced on stage that he was drunk.
I should point out that Jackie Chan was an invited performance guest at Lee’s show the night before.
I’m guessing there won’t be many more of those invitations for Chan anytime soon.
