Category: Notes

Interview with Jackie Chan and Jet Li

By Guttersnipe on April 23, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Speaking of Forbidden Kingdom, Jackie Chan and Jet Li are interviewed together at wu-jing.org.

Revenge of the Lady Fighter

By Guttersnipe on April 21, 2008 • ( 1 Comment )

With the ladies of Forbidden Kingdom looking a little… lackluster, here’s some of the original white-haired bride, Brigitte Lin (Bride with White Hair and The East Is Red) and the original Golden Swallow, Cheng Pei-Pei (Come Drink With Me and The Lady Hermit). And here’s some Angela Mao […]

No More Screaming

By Guttersnipe on April 17, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Hammer Studios and Corman horror star, Hazel Court, died Wednesday. She starred with icons like Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Peter Lorre–and even Patrick McGoohan (Danger Man) and Rock Hudson on television.

Who Wouldn’t Elope With Chewbacca?

By Guttersnipe on April 15, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

The first paragraph alone does it for me in Heather Havrilevsky’s reviews of Friday Night Lights and the new reality-dance show, Step It Up and Dance: “When my sister and I were kids, we made our Star Wars action figures go on dates with each other. First we’d […]