Entertainment snippets from other sources…
China – Movie poster (pic) of “Bodyguards and Assassins”, starring Donnie Yen etc. [Stareastasia]
China – Gao Yuanyuan in love [Cri]
HKG – Edison Chen talks to [CNN] on sex scandal.
Japan – Shun Oguri to direct a movie [Tokyograph]
Korea – Super Junior’s Asia tour [Seoulbeats]
Korea – AJ changing stage name due to namesake dispute and anti-fans’ harassment [Popseoul]
Korea – Yoo Ji-tae to build kindergarten in Nepal [K-popped]
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Really shocked to hear of David Carradine hanging himself. Alot of questions being asked. Why?? Was he terminally ill or in some sort of pain? Was there some sort of incident that led him to this?
When will Edison learn the word ashame? Didn’t he say he’s retiring from the enterainment industry?
cole… it’s still uncertain if he hanged himself; the latest updates seem to suggest that it’s accidental instead. Will missed him surely; didn’t watch much of his other works, but I was a fan of “Kungfu: Legend Continues” in the 90s.
sky… quoting Edison’s words, he didn’t say he’s retiring forever, but indefinitely.
Actually lots of the stuff he said are true, that he is a victim, and the girls did consent the video-tapping etc… the biggest problem is how he handled the saga, not just the saga itself. He can give all kind of excuses, but bottomline is… he failed miserably in handling the situation.
In fact the CNN interview itself is a PR failure. Of all the options (talk shows, TV channels etc) he had, he decided to choose a foreign based English channel instead… HKG media won’t be happy about that, and it’s a stupid thing to go against the media.
Yes, I saw that update. The report in USA TODAY said that it appears David Carradine may have been may have been engaged in a dangerous form of sex play known as auto-erotic asphyxiation.
The practice involves temporarily cutting off the supply of oxygen to the brain to heighten the effects of a sexual climax.
The hotel person who found him described that a rope was tied around his neck and another tied around his genitals, as well as the two ropes being tied together.
On the Edison Chen story.
First, Celebrities have always, ALWAYS, engaged in scandalous or ‘potentially scandulous’ sexual activity in private, just as alot of common folk do, including alot of those pointing fingers even in the press. Nothing new. In the computer high tech age today, they just get caught more…that’s all.
Second- stupid to keep photos like that on a computer. That’s a no brainer. And yes, deleting stuff in the trash doesn’t erase them from the hard drive.
Third- the eight month jail time for the punk technician that lifted the photos from the hard drive, Not nearly long enough. The guy did it out of malice and as a technician on the job he’s got no business nosing around on people’s hard drives ‘unecessarily’ Alot of dishonest young IT college boy types hacking and breaking into people’s computers etc these days.
This story should simply be a lesson to people. Don’t think you can’t be too careful, even in regards to what you do behind closed doors or in private. It’s sort of a sad statement considering that human nature with all it’s so-called “faults” hasn’t changed much in the history of time but society and technology have.
As for Cecilia Cheng, ha, she’s stupid and immature critisizing Chen for being a hypocrite considering she had cheated on Nicolas Tse with 3 men before they were married AND the pictures of her with Chen were taken while she and Tse were engaged.