Any one see "Green Hornet"?

[SPJ]

green hornet (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059991/)

I was only 5 years old at the time.

My cousin said it is a TV series. There is a Chinese actor. His name is Li Xiao Long. He was born in San Fran.

He moves so fast like a lightening.

Let me know when it starts we will watch together.

You have a bigger screen TV at your home. Yes, we will watch with a bigger TV and see if who "capture" his moves.

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:D

:)

:cool:

[MasterKiller]

Green Hornet reruns on Action Channel every Saturday morning from 7am - 8 am.

[SimonM]

I've seen it in reruns (plus the hillarious Batman crossover episodes - watching Bruce kick his way around the ring and miraculously NOT beat Batman and Robin to a bloody pulp is always worth a chuckle for the ironically minded) but I wasn't born until 1979 so I missed the original run.

[TonyM.]

Yep. Caught them all first run in the '60s.

[David Jamieson]

looking back on them, they are easily as lame, or lamer than the original batmans with adam west.

thankfully they have comic value and you can get a good laugh as whitey the hero orders his asian lacky/driver to do his dirty work for him.

gurg.

I owned the car toy when i was a kid. :p

Most of the stuff I enjoyed when I was a kid has pretty much no redeeming value to me now with one or two exceptions to that rule. None of these exceptions are in the format of television shows. I'd rather they were a pleasant memory than a current "I can't believe I used to..." kind of thing.

[TonyM.]

Television was just plain creepy in the sixties. Talking animals, martians, mechanical devices as parents. Loud fat drunk people that were not funny. The aforementioned rich elitist with their asian houseboys. Yup. Pretty creepy stuff.

[SPJ]

I was way too young to understand the plot and the story.

My Chinese and English were limited at the time.

:D

[SimonM]

looking back on them, they are easily as lame, or lamer than the original batmans with adam west.

thankfully they have comic value and you can get a good laugh as whitey the hero orders his asian lacky/driver to do his dirty work for him.



Get'em Kato! :D

[TenTigers]

looking back, lots of those things are still cool. Kato will always be cool. So will T.H.E. Cat, with Robert Loggia (even the music was cool-Lalo Shifrin, the same guy who did the score for Enter the Dragon) Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger will always rule. If I ever win lotto, you will know it because there will be an Aston Martin DB5 parked out in front.

[Buddy]

Wow, I had forgotten Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat.

[TenTigers]

Between T.H.E. Cat and Kato, I had my heros. This is before anyone ever heard of Ninjas. These guys dressed in black,Cat could scale walls, and throw knives, and drop down and land without a sound.
I don't know if anyone else has seen this, but when I was a kid, there was this Japanese TV series, called "Phantom Agents". These guys jumped over walls, threw stars (which I started making out of soda can tops-hey-I was ten.)
I wanted to be these guys. Later on in life, I actually ended studying Ninpo Taijutsu.

[SPJ]

Kool.

cat (http://www.thrillingdetective.com/cat.html)

:D

[SimonM]

I was way too young to understand the plot and the story.

My Chinese and English were limited at the time.

:D


SPJ I want to start by saying that absolutely no offense is intended by this whatsoever. But I'm curious, your writing syntax is quite similar to many of my better Chinese ESL students. Yet you are saying that Chinese is not your first language. Do you mean that Pu Tong Hua is not your first language and rather one of the other dialects (Cantonese, etc.) is or is your first language something entirely different?

I know that Cantonese is incredibly dissimilar from Pu Tong in pronounciation while being syntactically nearly identical through the use of a shared (ideogrammatic) alphabet, that could explain this situation... Do I have the wrong end of the stick?

[SPJ]

My native lingo is Ming Nan Hua or Taiwanese. However, I grew up in the military and police dorms. So I was exposed to many dialects.

And yes, my writings are Chinglish. They are actually old Chinese poems and literally translated into English most of the time.

:D

[SimonM]

OK, mystery solved.

And SPJ: your syntax may mark you as having first learned Chinese literacy but - to be blunt - your ability to write in English is far superior to my ability to write in Chinese. I can barely write a shopping list in Chinese and my greatest feats of literacy are reading menus accurately. :)

I'm a far cry from translating classical English poems into Chinese....

Hmmm..... Beowulf - the Chinese Translation.... Nawh, I want to do other things with the next 20 years rather than brush up my old english and my Chinese enough to translate from one to the other. :D

[SPJ]

PRC simplified the Chinese characters.

During Culture revolution, universities closed over a decade. Reading old literatures was banned.

After Mao passing, the culture revolution ended quietly.

Deng came to power and then there was a gradual revival of Chinese old literature.

Most of the styles of CMA existed before this time.

Most texts are either in colloquial sing along or old Chinese syntax.

KMT also introduced modern Chinese early last century. or Bai Hua Wen Xue.

:)

[SimonM]

What is interesting now is that while almost anyone (from China) can read the simplified Character set most sinage, menus, etc. are written in the traditional set. I prefer the traditional set myself for aestetic reasons.

[GeneChing]

‘Green Hornet’ Star Van Williams Dies at 82 (http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/van-williams-dead-dies-green-hornet-1201933644/)
By Will Thorne, Maane Khatchatourian

https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/van-williams-dead.jpg?w=670&h=377&crop=1
20TH CENTURY FOX TV/GREEWAY/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
DECEMBER 5, 2016 | 11:54AM PT

Van Williams, star of the 1966 TV show “The Green Hornet,” died last Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz., of renal failure. He was 82.

“He had a wonderful, caring, and kind heart,” his wife of 57 years, Vicki Williams, told Variety. “He was a wonderful husband, he was a fabulous father, and a devoted grandfather.”

Williams was a diving instructor in Hawaii when he was discovered in 1957 by producer Mike Todd, who was married to Elizabeth Taylor at the time. Williams was persuaded to come to Hollywood and try his hand at acting, and earned his big break on the ABC private detective show “Bourbon Street Beat.” He played Ken Madison, a character he later recycled for another detective show, “Surfside 6.”

In 1966, Williams signed a deal with 20th Century Fox to star in “The Green Hornet” as both the titular masked crusader and his newspaper editor alter ego, Britt Reid. He was ably supported by his martial arts master sidekick Kato, played by Bruce Lee, and by his weaponized car, Black Beauty. Williams played the role straight, signaling a departure from the lampoon comedy of Fox’s earlier “Batman” series.

Williams later appeared in iconic shows such as “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” as well as in the young adult-targeted “Westwind,” which centered around the adventures of the Andrews family who sailed around the world on a yacht.

After his acting career dropped off in the late 1970s, Williams became a reserve deputy sheriff and a volunteer fire fighter at the Malibu station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Actress Pat Priest (“The Munsters”), Williams’ longtime friend and neighbor, said Williams was his mentor.

“We had many fun dinners around our dining room table,” Priest told Variety. “We laughed a lot and he was my mentor in helping me with memorabilia shows. He was very special. We saw him last year and we have wonderful memories.”

Producer Kevin Burns, who worked with Williams on a relaunch campaign for “Batman” and “Green Hornet” in 1989, told Variety that Williams had singed his lungs while working as a volunteer fire fighter, and suffered from bronchial problems and back injuries.

“Through it all he remained strong and rarely spoke of what he went through. He was a great guy and a class act all the way,” Burns said in his Facebook post.

Williams is survived by his wife; three children, Nina, Tia, and Britt; and five grandchildren.

Didn't know he became a cop. Imagine getting a ticket from him.