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...State is brought to you by Shaq Fu, the hot new game for the Sega Genesis system," the television blurted...
...invigorating as Kenny's are insipid. As Steely Dan, the pair combined the ! subversiveness of rock with the cool swing of jazz, yielding seven hit albums and sleek, acerbic singles like Hey Nineteen, about a 30ish Lothario and his drug-loving teenage girlfriend. Becker, whose stringy hair and Fu Manchu lent him a certain wanted-poster chic, and Fagen, in ever present sunglasses, nurtured their legend by seldom performing live, avoiding interviews and generally wrapping themselves in mystique...
...score of jazz, rock and fado. Critics have airily dismissed the show; nonetheless, it has already broken Lisbon attendance records, with more than 100,000 tickets sold in its first six months. An elegant 1912 dowager, the Politeama had fallen on sad days, becoming a seedy home for kung fu and soft-core-porn films. Restored for $3.3 million by producer-director Filipe la Feria, it is now occupied by the $ 65 members of Damned Cocaine's cast, and the entire orchestra level is a stylish cafe where audience members dine at 8 and are ringside at Maxim...
...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...
...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...