Word: fu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...video-game-paced fare that has the feel of a cheap Japanese monster movie, circa 1956. The premise: five teenagers (three boys and two girls) are transmogrified mid-episode into spandex-clad superheroes who battle the vile forces of Rita Repulsa, an intergalactic witch. Through a mix of kung-fu acrobatics, pummeling and pouncing, the Rangers manage to defeat whatever band of clunky, plastic robot- cretins Rita enjoins to cause trouble...
...second category consists of either Bruce Lee-types who only know how to karate-chop their way through life, or Chinatown gangsters like those in the film, "Year of the Dragon." It seems that without kung-fu or a gun, we are a race of half-men who are an affront to masculinity...
...that an Asian man cannot be a heroic figure unless he stays within his cultural idiom, especially one so exaggerated as martial arts? Are we never to be seen as anything but strangers from another land, outsiders like Cain the Wanderer from the TV series Kung Fu...
...says Sumi Sevilla Haru, president of the Association of Asian-Pacific American Artists, "African Americans have tried to improve their image. Now Asian Americans are trying to get a piece of the action. The only Asian in prime-time television is David Carradine playing one on the syndicated Kung Fu. That kind of sucks, doesn...
...sooner does Bruce (Jason Scott Lee, no relation) conquer the little world of kung fu than he moves on to the larger -- well, anyway, flashier -- world of show biz. And, of course, more troubles that need braving out: he plays Kato on The Green Hornet TV series, but it gets canceled; he has a million- dollar idea for another series, which is swept out from under him because the network doesn't want the Chinese hero played by a Chinese actor (hence the lead in Kung Fu goes to David Carradine). Bruce returns to his roots, from which he draws...