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...There is no intermission, evidently a precaution against losing the entire audience at half tune," wrote New York Post Critic Douglas Watt. Said Clive Barnes of the New York Times: "At times you could imagine yourself watching a parody called Kung Fu Comes to Athens." Enough, said the show's producers, and closed the doors after one performance...
...schedule was plotted with careful respect for diplomatic niceties. After touching down at Fairbanks, Alaska, and Tokyo, Air Force One flew southwest toward Shanghai and then north to Peking, to avoid offending the Chinese by flying over South Korea. At the airport the reception for America's Fu-t'eh Tsungtun (Chinese for President Ford) was warm and less tense than the one extended to Richard Nixon...
...ever worked with because there is no employment for Asian actors. They were waiting tables, being stenographers and working in advertising agencies. I found most of them in San Francisco and Los Angeles because that's where they get movie work playing Hirohito and coolies and acting in Kung-Fu movies, Hawaii Five-O and all that junk...
...attributes this ability to years of studying Kung-fu...
...funny, bemusedly tense little action picture. It was obviously intended to scoop Rollerball, a more costly and similar science-fiction enterprise (TIME, July 7) and it commits its petty larceny briskly and efficiently, with none of Rollerball's thundering pretension. David Carradine, late of TV's Kung Fu, appears as the champion racer Frankenstein. Various parts of his body have been smashed, burned or discarded during his racing career, and he now appears in a black mask and zippered leather suit, looking like a cross between a rock star and a fetishist mannequin. His main competition...