Month In Review

This month everybody kind of just died. If you are still breathing, count your blessings already.

• Shih Kien. The one and only. He was the most loved bad guy in those serious and unintentional funny wuxia black and white features. In those Wong Fei Hung series, in the end, he invariably got beat up by Wong--the always serious and always (self-)righteous good guy played by the late Kwan Tak Hing, and cried for mercy and forgiveness. It was classic Shek Kin. He actually made the good guys look bad. In those days, the characters and the actors are almost indistinguishable.
  
• David Carradine. Everything was in slow motion. He was genuinely campy without the irony. He single-handedly made Kung Fu look bad and good at the same time.
• Ed McMahon. Hereeeeeeeeeeee's Johny. The sidekick that turned to a star.
• Farrah Fawcett. The hair was definitely bigger than the person.
• Michael Jackson. A guy who grew up so fast as a kid so much so that he refused to grow up when he became an adult. He was kind and warm before he was spiteful. His greatness was only matched by his total weirdness. He'd never stop entertaining dead or alive.
  

And they are all dead now.