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post #51 of 54
6/11/10 at 2:24am
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Originally Posted by Tom Logan View Post
It weren't much cop.
I thought the term was 'chop'.

On topic, found myself talking to Hal McElroy, producer of RAZORBACK and assistant director on THE MAN FROM HONG KONG, at an industry function a couple of weeks back. Luckily I was drunk enough to ask him about some of the films featured in NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD and he may well have been merry enough to answer me. In short, Jimmy Wang Yu was even worse than the anecdotes in the movie made him out to be - allegedly, he eventually quit showbiz altogether and became a gangster in Asia, eventually getting killed by the Triads.
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post #52 of 54
6/11/10 at 4:02am
Well, I don't know if Yu is still alive or not, but when I saw online after watching the movie the story about how he got arrested in Taiwan for murder and yet was set free due to "a lack of evidence", I figured out that he was bad news.
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post #53 of 54
7/19/10 at 5:54am
So I caught Mark Hartley's follow-up to NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD the other night - it's called MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED, and it looks at the thriving exploitation-movie industry in the Philippines throughout the '60s, '70s and '80s. Some of the movies were done by Filipino filmmakers (like Cirio H. Santiago) but a large percentage of the movie is dedicated to the women-in-prison pictures made by Roger Corman's New World Pictures. It's interesting and fun, and very much a companion piece to NQH - little nuggets of real-world history combined with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, colourful commentary (the very funny John Landis in for Tarantino) and many, many scenes featuring the unclad stars of the movies.

Oh, and Weng Weng, the inch-high private eye of FOR Y'UR HEIGHT ONLY. Once seen, never forgotten.

For Melbourne Chewers, it's screening at the upcoming Melbourne International Film Festival. Elsewhere in the world...well, you'll get it when you get it, I guess. But it's well worth a watch.
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post #54 of 54
7/19/10 at 6:04am
I hope they interviewed Vic Diaz. He played some damn great villains in those WIP flicks.
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