Word: fu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While this is the year of Shogun, it is also the year of Edgar Foo Yung, Fu Manchu, Charlie Chan, and Singapore Sue. These racist depictions of Asians have returned to the screen and stage as vehicles of "sophisticated humor" in full technological splendor. Hasty Pudding's "A Little Knife Music" and Warner Brother's "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu" featured stereotypic, sinister and subhuman Asian males (played by white actors) who lust after white women. Last month, Hasty Pudding offered us the female counterparts: Singapore Sue (so sweet and soft and gentle, my favorite Oriental) and Madame...
These recurring stereotypes have met with anger and protest from many Asian Americans. Last spring's Hasty Pudding show was picketed by the Asian American Association (AAA) and other student groups. The opening of "Fu Manchu" in Boston this summer was protested by members of Boston's Asian community. And residents of San Francisco's Chinatown refused to allow the filming of the soon-to-be released Charlie Chan movie in their community because they considered it degrading and offensive...
...have affirmed our pride in the richness and diversity of the Asian American experience. At the same time we have tried to raise the entire community's awareness of Asian American history and culture. The images of Asian that we present are different from those found in Jordan Marsh, Fu Manchu, and the Hasty Pudding Theatricals because they come directly from our people's experience. Being Asian is not chic or exotic; it is an identity integrally tied to a history of contract labor, violence, and exculsion. It is an identity linked to the development of supportive organizations family associations...
...young scholar (Fu Peng) passes the door of a farmer's daughter (Zhao Yanxia) and starts the usual boy-meets-girl talk. The situation progresses, and they burst into song, both in falsetto, until a matchmaker comes along and provides the mandatory happy ending...
...Great Impersonator used unique methods for his special effects. The voice of bumbling Inspector Clouseau is swiped from a Paris hotel concierge; in The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, a film that will be released next week, Sellers imitates the uncle of his friend Lord Snowdon. Aurally acute listeners to Chance may recognize the voice of Comedian Stan Laurel. Although he was unmusical offscreen, he could become an opera star if the part required it. "Peter couldn't sing a bloody note," recalled Actor Wilfrid Hyde-White. "Yet when he sang Caruso, he took high Cs like Caruso...