Fang Shilong is da man

Nothing human is strange to them.
Even princesses fart.
Jacky our Chan revealed another facet of his outstanding life.

"Kung Fu film star Jackie Chan Monday admitted that he acted in a porn movie 31 years ago, responding to a report revealed by Hong Kong media, Information Times reported Tuesday.

"I had to do anything I could to make a living 31 years ago, but I don't think it's a big deal, even Marlon Brando used to be exposed in his movies," Chan said. "The porn movie at that time was more conservative than the current films," he said.

Hong Kong netizens tipped local media that Chan was in the porn movie "All in the Family" (Hua fei man cheng chun ) in 1975, with a porn movie star who was famous at that time.

The Hong Kong made movie, directed by Zhu Mu, was defined as a comedy. A family gathers to be with its dying father. The reunion brings to the surface old rivalries.
Dean Shek, Tien Chun, and Sammo Hung were also co-stars.

This movie features the first and (so far) only sex scene in which 'Jackie Chan' has done on film. This is also the only movie he has ever done in which there wasn't a single fight or stunt sequence."

(Asianfanatics.net and this site)

Why all this tabloidness on my blog? I was and am a fan of old Jackie (52 years old) aka Chan Kong Sang aka Chen Gang Sheng (陳港生) aka Seng Long (成龍) aka Cheng Long (成龙) aka Yuen Lo aka Sing Lung aka Pao Pao, who has recently found out his other name - Fang Shilong (房士龍). Turned out his father (Fang Daolong) was a spy and a customs officer and many other things in the Mainland at the turmoiling times of 1930-40s, his mother (Lee Lee) a gambler and an opium smuggler, called 'the Third Sister' in the underworld of Shanghai. Jackie's father had caught his wife-to-be red-handed but let her go, later marrying her. Here's a human touch. But they both left behind on the mainland 2 kids each, fleeing to Hong Kong after the Communists took power. Here's a human tragedy. "It was so commonplace in China. Life was cheap. It has always been cheap. It's a very common thing to do, abandon your children. In every family, there were abandoned children" - says Mabel Cheung, the director of a recent movie "Traces of a Dragon: Jackie Chan and His Lost Family" ("Longde Shenchu: Shiluode Pin Tu") and many Chinese might agree to this. Here's your West meets East. Here's your wonder and not judge - at least as I see it. Not that these people wanted to gamble or smuggle opium, - but wanted to survive.Jackie as a graduate of Peking Opera school in HK met some underworld characters, gambled and reportedly dealt in drugs, but ain't it another human touch to see a human behind the glamour of the ageing superstar? His dad - experienced in Chinese dark customs - hinted that his son had to stay away from Triads and drugs - a sound advice for the real world. And how about the story that Chan has an illegitimate daughter from a HK starlet with a beautiful name Elaine Ng Yi-Lei. And a legit wife (Lin Feng Jiao) and a son. Here's the trial of stardom and manhood. Here are the private emotions and decisions as private as that. Here's the value of one's own life. It's interesting for the guy to live, you can't take it from him. But it's also pretty difficult. In projection to your own life, makes you think. About him as nothing out of the ordinary, - ordinary sweat and blood of his stunts, ordinary perseverance, ordinary responses to ordinary human feelings, ordinary sins and ordinary punishments for those. And makes you think about yourself and your choices and your decisions.

Anyhow, I like the dude. Flesh and blood and rewards for everything. Those who can hear let them hear. A literally outstanding example.

For those learning Chinese - here's the site with Jackie Chan's songs - lyrics and sound, good for learning with a star-sparkled twist. Or - for me it's a more luring way to study Chinese, maybe because he's a memory of an endless childhood o'mine, in synch with his vivacious acting impressed for-almost-ever on celluloid two decades ago. He is pretty prolific, old chap. I counted 28 music albums.