Kim Ok-Bin is currently shooting her newest film, Evil Live. Principal photography started in March. According to Variety, the movie is “all about a priest who becomes a vampire and embraces his physical existence a little too enthusiastically by having an affair with his buddy’s wife”.
I assume Kim plays the married woman. Park Chan-wook, director of amazing films Old Boy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, helms this one. Hopefully, it’s as good as Old Boy, but not as bad as I’m a Cyborg.
Casting was difficult in that the female lead requires lots of sex and nudity. Yesss!! Judging by the way Kim dances though, I don’t know if she can pull it off. They say you can tell a lot about a person sexually, by the way they dance. When I watch Kim dance, I imagine she got her sexuality from old 1960s Japanese robot movies.
Variety reports that Gambler, one of South Korea’s most famous dance crews, will star in Paramount’s Hype Nation. Gambler recently finished second at the World Free Style Session held in LA. As for the movie, the plot revolves around a dance battle between B2K and Gambler. Teddy Riley is involved, though the extent is unknown.
B2K ehh? I didn’t realize they were still around. Last news I heard was about their former manager’s molestation of group members. And Teddy Riley? He’s trying to stave off bankruptcy. So, should the Gambler crew really involve themselves with these guys?
The whole dance crew thing is bubbling up to the mainstream. Obviously with MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew”, Jabbawockeez,Kaba Modern. Also, the release of the film, Plant B-Boy. B-Boying is international and very integrated. That’s a great byproduct. Every country has a crew who represents. Except China. I haven’t heard of any great crew from China. Which is surprising. Considering what great gymnasts they are.
In the 1960s, Warner Brothers deemed several cartoons too offensive to release. Labeled the “Censored 11″, they have not been broadcast since their release. Many were traded underground on bootleg tapes. Thankfully, now we have Youtube.
You can now find such classics as “Tokio Jokio”, “Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs” and “Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips” online. Youtube recently attempted to remove all the offending cartoons. However, just like stereotypes, they keep coming back.
8asians.com recently asked what to do with these cartoons:
Many, including the NAACP, are calling for the videos to be returned to the vault while YouTube/Google are less inclined to pull the videos unless Warner Bros comes forward to claim copyright infringement.
A representative for Warner wrote in an e-mail message that “Warner Brothers has rights to the titles” in question and that “we vigorously protect all our copyrights. We do not make distinctions based on content.”
Not one to pass up racist cartoons, I spent a good part of the afternoon looking up these titles. By ‘good part’, I meant halftime of the Pistons-Sixers game. After watching them, my feeling was of amusement, optimism, disgust.
Jackie recently visited India where he attended the premiere of Dasavathaaram. According to Bollyspice, Dasavathaaram starts “in medieval times…leaps to America and back to India and features some of the industry’s most beautiful women…Mallika Sherawat, Asin and Jayapradha.” Jackie starred with Mallika in The Myth, which probably whetted his appetite for India. Jackie further explains his desire:
India is the world’s biggest market for movies. I want to do a film here. I am eagerly waiting for a good project.
Good for Jackie. He will do good in a Bollywood production. He has the singing, dancing and comedic skills to pull it off. His timing is spot on. Just don’t get Hollywood involved. They will insist on hiring Chris Tucker, a man who never met a line he couldn’t yell. Memo to Chris: Screaming your lines doesn’t make them any funnier. Funny is to Chris Tucker what Jack in the Box is to gourmet food. That is to say, they’re both crap.
Well, it’s Korea, so as close to a sex scandal as you get. Kim Ju-yeon, runner-up in the Miss Korea 2007 pageant, revealed her pregnancy with footballer Hwang Jae Won. Out of wedlock! *shudders* A distressed Kim Ju-yeon broke down at a press conference, confirmed that she’s preggers and provided text messages from Hwang demanding an abortion.
According to Popseoul!, Hwang asked her to “erase (abort) before things get too difficult.” Erase? Is that a translation thing? Why not ctrl+alt+delete? Or manual reset? “We’re too young for a baby, how about a manual reboot?” Perhaps erase really means abort in Korean. And vice versa. Women go to doctors to get erased and teachers ask students to abort mistakes and redo their work.
Hwang Jae Won comes off as a real cad. ALLKPOP also reports his text message, provided at the press conference, further says “I told you we should’ve aborted [erased?] the kid from the very beginning” and “If you die, the child will die too, so why don’t you just go and die.”
Wow, what a winner. After he sent this message, did he also pound his chest with his fists and jump up and down? Apart from his caveman-like actions, he forgot the rules of good storytelling. You don’t use the same verb three(!) times in a sentence. Too monotonous to the reader. Next time you ask someone for an abortion, here are some synonyms for die: perish, pass away, succumb, subside, expire.
Rain is everywhere these days. Seoul, Hong Kong, LA, New York. When does Rain stop? It’s no wonder the man does not gain any weight. No time to eat! Recently, he stopped in Los Angeles for the premiere of Speed Racer. Both K-popped! and Yeinjee scored interviews with the Justin Timberlake of Korea. Fairly in-depth interviews where Rain explains his quest for world domination. He also tells us about his plans for a dance-off with Justin Timberlake and Usher at Madison Square Garden. Psyche! That will take place only in my mind.
Rain evidently dresses up as a woman in this movie. Yeinjee reports:
I read that you are disguising as a woman in the movie, mind sharing more about the story?
This is my first time dressing like a woman, and it’s the first time I knew my legs are actually very pretty.
Uhh..Hey, I like Rain and all, but you can’t go around saying your legs are ‘pretty’. If any guy hears what ‘pretty’ legs they have, either A) their mother just said that and you know how old-fashioned and sweet mothers can be, or B) they just woke up in jail.
Kim Ok-Bin is currently shooting her newest film, Evil Live. Principal photography started in March. According to Variety, the movie is “all about a priest who becomes a vampire and embraces his physical existence a little too enthusiastically by having an affair with his buddy’s wife”.
Well, it’s Korea, so as close to a sex scandal as you get. Kim Ju-yeon, runner-up in the Miss Korea 2007 pageant, revealed her pregnancy with footballer Hwang Jae Won. Out of wedlock! *shudders* A distressed Kim Ju-yeon broke down at a press conference, confirmed that she’s preggers and provided text messages from Hwang demanding an abortion.
Rain is everywhere these days. Seoul, Hong Kong, LA, New York. When does Rain stop? It’s no wonder the man does not gain any weight. No time to eat! Recently, he stopped in Los Angeles for the premiere of 
