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Warner Oland Bela Lugosi Sally Eilers The unsolved murder of a Hollywood actor several years earlier and an enigmatic psychic are the keys to help Charlie solve the Honolulu stabbing death of a beautiful actress.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday released a letter that he sent to his colleagues in the Senate urging them to oppose the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, saying he “has shown a repeated disregard for the rule of law.” Cruz claims that Mayorkas, the former deputy secretary of DHS who also served as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, committed “a long list of ethical, legal, and policy failures,” during his career, including “abuses of power that provided special government favors to benefit well-connected Democrats, such as securing an EB-5 visa...

My Father was a great fan of Charlie Chan movies, a series of detective movies from the 1930s featuring a fictional Chinese-American detective. My father had every one of them on video tape. Not only did he watch them often, he also collected Charlie Chan sayings. For in every movie there would be dozens of wise, witty, and insightful sayings. He jotted them down as he watched and once presented me with a collection of the sayings.On Friday’s I like to blog on lighter fare and this Friday evening is no exception. I simply want to present the list my...

As the value of the dollar continues to decline, that legendary Honolulu police detective of yesteryear, Charlie Chan, is summoned to question several persons-of-interest. With his Number Three Son, Tommy, Chan enters the plush, mahogany paneled meeting room at the Department of the Treasury where several likely suspects await.  In the center of a conference table, inside a tamper-proof glass box, is a single dollar bill that appears to be smaller than normal. We listen in on the conversation: Vice President Joe Biden: Welcome to America, Charlie. I've heard so much about your restaurant in Honolulu. I love cashew...

To many Asian-Americans, Charlie Chan is an offensive stereotype, another sort of Uncle Tom. Chan, the hero of six detective novels by Earl Derr Biggers and 47 Hollywood movies between 1926 and 1949, not to mention a 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, is pudgy, slant-eyed and inscrutable, and he speaks in singsong fortune-cookie English, saying things like, “If befriend donkey, expect to be kicked.” The California-born author and playwright Frank Chin, who has written essays denouncing Chan, would like to see him disappear altogether. But Yunte Huang, who was born and grew up in China, can’t get enough of Chan and...

The revival of a 42-year-old documentary on the fictional Chinese detective Charlie Chan has reignited the controversy surrounding that character specifically and, more generally, the portrayal of Asian-Americans in Hollywood. The documentary, “The Great Charlie Chan,” made in 1968, was all but forgotten. But Harvey Chertok, who was vice president for advertising, promotion and publicity at Warner Brothers-Seven Arts when it was created, said he discovered it recently while cleaning out old files. The New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the group that organizes the New York Emmy Awards, held a screening in February...

DOBBS: Still ahead here tonight -- the investment rush to China has hit a new level tonight. We'll have that story for you. China's latest gain coming at the expense of, guess what, the United States. We'll have that special report next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) DOBBS: Stocks today barely moved on Wall Street: the Dow down 15; the NASDAQ down almost 6; the S&P fell a point. Startling new numbers tonight on a changing trend in foreign investment affecting this country and you and me. Christine Romans with the story -- Christine? CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Lou, companies rushed to invest...

Are you as confused about being politically correct as I am? I mean, I've got the basics straight. I read the New York Times — its front page is the bible of political correctness. I know enough not to call a woman a girl. And ever since the 1970s, I don't even call baby chickens chicks. But from that point on, I'm confused. My confusion really extends to the area of racial and ethnic political correctness. And a lot of my problem is that the Politically Correct policy changes every day. I mean, I went to sleep one day feeling...

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The Fox Movie Channel has lifted its ban on Charlie Chan movies, the television network announced on Friday. Fox had announced the cancellation of the broadcasts in June after complaints from Asian American groups that the fictional Chinese detective was portrayed in the movies as a racially offensive stereotype. The Fox Movie Channel, which serves about 20 million households through either cable or satellite service, announced that the Charlie Chan film festival will restart beginning Saturday, September 13. To mollify Asian American groups, the network will feature "a panel of prominent Asian Americans representing film history, sociology, authors and actors"...

Greg Crosby Confucius Say: "Charlie Chan is a Good Thing" http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | The Fox Movie Channel was all ready to broadcast a summer festival of vintage Charlie Chan mysteries from the thirties and forties, but at the last minute decided to drop the whole thing. The cable channel cited "concerns about racial insensitivity" voiced by some Asian activist organizations which led Fox to discontinue showing the pictures. In a letter to Fox last week, Christine Chen, Executive Director for a Washington D.C. based civil rights group called Organization of Chinese Americans Inc. labeled the films "A painful reminder of Hollywood's...

(CNSNews.com) - The Fox Movie Channel, apparently torn between the sensitivities of Asian Americans and the desires of its viewers, has amended an earlier decision to cancel a Charlie Chan film festival. Fox had announced the cancellation of the broadcasts last week after complaints from Asian American groups about the fictional Chinese detective the groups said was portrayed as a racially offensive stereotype. However, the Fox Movie Channel, which serves about 20 million households through either cable or satellite service, added a sentence late Tuesday to its website statement indicating a possible shift in the network's decision to cancel the...

FMC has changed the pop-up announcement on their website, www.thefoxmoviechannel.com/ . Small changes, but I think we're getting to them. The first paragraph now reads: "Fox Movie Channel has suspended the broadcast of the previously scheduled Charlie Chan Mystery Tour..." It used to say "discontinued", now it's been softened to "suspended". And they've added this: "In the hope that this action will evoke discussion about the progress made in our modern, multicultural society, we invite you to please visit our website at www.foxmoviechannel.com to send us your thoughts on the matter.---> Fox Movie Channel will schedule Charlie Chan films based...

Some tax dodge calling itself the National Asian American Telecommunications Association demanded that Fox Movie Channel cancel their long-awaited Charlie Chan film festival; they said it was offensive to Asians. Fair enough, they want free publicity and this kind of rabble-rousing is a good enough way to get it. But then Fox FOLDED LIKE YESTERDAY'S LAUNDRY! The idiots' open letter is here: http://www.naatanet.org/forumarchive/index.html And Fox, the conservative's stalwart friend, bends over thus: "Fox Movie Channel has been made aware that the Charlie Chan films may contain situations or depictions that are sensitive to some viewers. Fox Movie Channel realizes that...