Posted on 04/05/2011 1:40:06 PM PDT by DTogo
He estimates he has given out at least half of what he has earned throughout his career: “My goal is to have a $0 in my bank account the day I die.”
HONG KONG — Help for the people of Japan suffering the effects of earthquake, tsunami and radioactive fallout was only a phone call away. It helped that Jackie Chan was on one end of the call.
“When I picked up the phone and called my friends in the entertainment business in Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and Singapore, right away, they all agreed to come over,” Chan said.
The Hong Kong-born action superstar called in favors from across Asia for his disaster relief fund-raising concert, Artiste 311 Love Beyond Borders, which raked in more than HK$26 million ($3.3 million) — and counting — in donations in just three hours.
The concert was held Friday, but the cash kept flowing the next night at Chan’s wrap dinner for the production team, where co-organizers Eric Tsang and John Shum toasted their crew and wound down. “I still have some of the cash donations that people gave me today in my pocket,” Chan told The Hollywood Reporter.
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Good for him.
Jackie seems to be a really great guy. Don’t know if he’s a lib or not, but even if he is, he at least walks the talk.
Sure about that? Jackie Chan's on TV, you know.
Obama would never do that...
He's said a few disturbing things, most recently comments that appeared to suggest anti-democracy leanings in China. But those comments could have been out of context, and like you said he actually puts his money and talent to good use.
Way to go, don’t do Karate Kid 2 Jackie, think of the children.
Jackie Chan is not only a great actor, he’s a standup guy.
I you haven’t seen any of his movies, you are missing some of the best and most creative stunts any actor has ever performed.
Thank you, Jackie.
Considering the recent bloody history between China and Japan, Jackie Chan is REALLY a class act for doing this.
I worked with a phd born in the Nanking area....he was a child when the Japanese ‘raped’ it...
He would never be caught dead in a Japanese car and would tell anyone who wanted to hear what he thought of the Japanese.....he has gone to his maker now....and I have wondered recently how he would have taken the news of the earthquake/tsunami/meltdown. probably not graciously...and understandably so...
She gave a look of utter disdain and said that she wasn't sure where I got THAT impression.
I apologized and said that ‘yes, no doubt when the Japanese were in China, they didn't earn a reputation for being polite - what with all the rape and murder and slave labor and all.’
On the subject of grabby Japanese men on trains, my s.i.l. pointed out (my brother and I watch a lot of Samurai movies) that she had YET to see a Japanese cinematic depiction of ‘seduction’ that didn't have an element of rape.
Big fan of Japanese culture - other than the sexual weirdness, the shut-ins, and the fascist history. They truly are the Germans of the East. ;)
Indeed, Jackie’s Hong Kong action movies from the ‘80s/’90s were great!
Fortunately many people Jackie’s age and younger, in both HK and Japan, have put the past in the past.
Rhetorical question:
All the bigwigs, politician freaks, hollyhole aholes, et. al. wanted to do all of these benefits for the previous tsunami, Haiti disaster, N’awlins, etc. but I don’t see anybody of significance in the US wanting to hold some sort of benefit for the Japanese people. Just cheap talk from cheap suits.
Why? Really sad!
Jackie’s a good guy. And pretty much the biggest star in the world — his fan base is huge all over Asia.
I personally prefer his Hong Kong movies: Police Story, Armour of God, that one where he plays a gangster, then Drunken Monkey(?) etc. — much, much more than his Hollywood forays.
Actually they’re considered more like the English of the East — both Island nations off the periphery of the main Eurasian continent :-P
Two thumbs up for Jackie. God bless him.
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