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The 25 Most Infamous Asian Villains in Hollywood Films (#5-1)

  • February 11, 2011 12:02 am

Very few things make a movie more memorable than a memorable villain. And Hollywood has a long history of featuring on-screen Asian baddies—both the memorable and forgettable, the stereotypical and the sublime, the “authentic” and the offensive. Every day this week (Monday-Friday), I’ll count down my choices for the 25 most “infamous” of Hollywood’s Asian villains—the good, the bad and the ugly.

Today the top 5…

5) THE HANGOVER (2009) 
Ken Jeong as Mr. Chow

Is there an Asian American actor who’s divided the community more in recent years than the good Dr. Ken Jeong? Consider the reactions to Jeong’s role here as Las Vegas gangster Mr. Chow. Some found his character’s use of Engrish, effeminate mannerisms and tiny…uh, manhood in the film’s most famous scene to be offensively stereotypical while others found those very things to be hilarious as fuck. Personally, I dig the brotha ‘cause he’s not afraid to push the envelope, to be outrageous, to offend and go to places most sane people would dare not tread. OK, so maybe he has a small dick (or as he describes it—a mangina), but he makes up for it with big balls (and makes me look like Wilt Chamberlain in comparison so thanks for that). Jeong’s performance in The Hangover won him MTV’s Best WTF Moment Award at last year’s ceremony where he did something else that was outrageous—gave a moving acceptance speech about his wife’s battle with breast cancer: “The reason why I [appeared in The Hangover] is that [my wife] taught me that life is short, so don’t be afraid to take chances.” With Jeong set to return in the Thailand-bound Hangover 2, I don’t think we have to worry about him or his mangina being afraid to take more chances.

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Super Hot Album Covers…YOMYOMF Flavah Edition

  • March 29, 2010 2:47 am

Offender Alfredo recently blogged about his choices for Super Hot Album Covers and that made me think about my favorite album covers and how they might relate to some of the key people who have helped define YOMYOMF. So with the help of fellow Offender and photoshop guru/master/bad ass mofo David, here’s a reimagining of these album covers injected with a little bit of YOMYOMF flavah to kick off an otherwise gloomy Monday. Have a great week and keep offending, my friends!

BEATLES “Meet The Beatles”
Featuring Justin, Sung, Roger and Dustin Nguyen

Although this was technically the Beatles’ second U.S. album, it was the one that introduced most Americans to the Fab Four. So I thought it would be fitting to kick things off by mashing-up that album cover with the men from Offender Justin’s film Finishing The Game. For our readers who don’t know, youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com was the original Finishing The Game website. Instead of shutting down the site after the film was released, Justin had the idea of turning it into a blog and the rest is history mildly interesting trivia. So “meet” the faces of the men who inadvertently gave birth to YOMYOMF.  Read more...

If I had all the money in the world, I’d remake BACK TO THE FUTURE, THE TERMINATOR and HIGHLANDER with KEN JEONG

  • March 22, 2010 1:30 am

There may be no other Asian American actor in recent memory who has sparked as much controversy in our community than Ken Jeong but, as he demonstrates every week on NBC’s Community, he is also one of the funniest dudes around—Asian or not. But like other comedians before him, Ken may one day decide it’s time to stretch as an artist and prove himself in other genres: maybe as a romantic leading man or an action hero or even a cyborg killer from the future. Here are some remakes we think would be perfect for him should he ever choose to pursue this new career path:

BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
Ken Jeong as Marty McFly (originally played by Michael J. Fox)

In this version, Ken travels 30 years into the past to 1980—a time of disco, casual sex with no consequences and key parties. His future mom (played by Charlie’s Angel Lucy Liu) is a hard-partying slut who won’t give geeky future dad (played by Gedde Watanabe as Sixteen Candles’ Long Duk Dong) the time of day. Bif, dad’s romantic rival for mom’s affection, is no longer a dumb jock, but a sensitive and misunderstood singer/songwriter (played by Twilight’s Robert Pattinson) who brings his acoustic guitar to school dances, broods in dark corners and plays Jim Croce songs.  Read more...

TMZ + National Enquirer = positive Asian American portrayal?

  • November 28, 2009 11:19 pm

Screw the networks and glossy magazines, the places to go for positive Asian American representation are TMZ and the National Enquirer. Exhibit A: TMZ coverage of Ken Jeong. Did they catch him outside some strip club with no underwear? Did they catch him karate kicking the cameraman? Did they catch him eating egg salad off some men’s room floor? No. They caught him picking up his parents from the airport. I love how much love is in that family and how cool they are with PDA. Priceless.

Exhibit B: Check out National Enquirer’s coverage on Ken.  Read more...

Hollywood and Asians: Why Protests Alone Won’t Change Anything

  • August 31, 2009 7:02 pm

thegoods_kenjeong01The other day I was talking to an acquaintance who was very involved in the recent protests against the film The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard. I’m sure most of our readers know about the scene from that movie which has outraged some Asian Americans: Ken Jeong plays a car salesman who gets assaulted by his white co-workers after another salesman, played by Jeremy Piven, invokes Pearl Harbor. You can read about it here.

Now, this acquaintance was very passionate about protesting this film, as well as the whitewashing of the upcoming live-action adaptation of The Last Airbender. He planned to participate in on-going actions against these two films because of the “vital” need for us to demand that Hollywood increase its representation of Asian (Americans) and to portray us more accurately.  Read more...