i mean really. they’re just famous here. and maybe casually so in other asian countries. but they ain’t hollywood. they haven’t done anything worth being snooty about.
even hollywood actresses and actors who have done some real work aren’t as snooty as Taiwan entertainers. look at matt damon. i hear he’s a class act all the way around. a real nice guy and very humble. he didn’t step off the plane wearing sunglasses at night, acting like the ass that taiwan “poop stars” do. look at norah jones. she’s the real deal. does she act like the bitch shiao S is? no. yeah america has some prima donnas, but at least they done something to be snooty about , though that’s still no excuse.
taiwan stars are “mao pai houh” and they know it. that’s why they’re so stuck up.
[quote=“theposter”]
taiwan stars are “mao pai houh” and they know it. that’s why they’re so stuck up.[/quote]
Examples please!
Are they really stuck up? Or is it just that she said ‘no’ after you asked her out?
I once asked Coco Lee to dance when I was at a now closed nightclub in Taipei that Maoman (when he had a ponytail, a six pac stomach and wore suits) would frequent.
It was a magnet for the Shitterati who would park there Ferrais and Porshes bought with mom’s money and bad music deals in front of this vapid joint.
I saw this luscious curveature of the female anatomy and slithered over in my best lounge lizard tongue flicker style, leaned over so as not to pour the contents of my martini glasss down my feshly pressed trouser leg and said,
“Hey Mommy-want to take Daddy to the bingo game with those tight pants and read me all the numbers?”
Only it actually sounded like, “Haaa-waa-waa-hwa-minny ha ha pants-your smooth bingo bottom?”
From out of the shadows I was assualted and spirited away from the scene by an entourage and a few bouncers screaming-
“Don’t you know who that is!!! That’s Coco Lee!!! You can’t talk to her!!!”
I’ve actually met a few singers that an ex-GF trained in dance and they were really nice and not believing the HYPE around them.
There is an older female singer named Xiao Hu who frequents On Tap and Sappho who is really cool and down to earth.
So I guess there are some singers out there in Taiwanland who aren’t B-list-A-Holes.
We once interviewed Coco Lee. She had an impressively large entourage, spent a lot of time in makeup and said equally impressively stupid things. Her opinion of herself is far in excess of most cover singers.
In contrast, when we interviewed Zhang Zhen-yue, he just came by himself and “makeup” for him consisted of adjusting his baseball hat.
[quote=“theposter”]i mean really. they’re just famous here. and maybe casually so in other asian countries. but they ain’t hollywood. they haven’t done anything worth being snooty about.
even hollywood actresses and actors who have done some real work aren’t as snooty as Taiwan entertainers. look at matt damon. i hear he’s a class act all the way around. a real nice guy and very humble. he didn’t step off the plane wearing sunglasses at night, acting like the ass that taiwan “poop stars” do. look at norah jones. she’s the real deal. does she act like the bitch shiao S is? no. yeah america has some prima donnas, but at least they done something to be snooty about , though that’s still no excuse.
taiwan stars are “mao pai houh” and they know it. that’s why they’re so stuck up.[/quote]
Isn’t this often true in America (and other countries) too, though? Some performers with real talent and real achievement are down-to-earth and nice, others are jerks. Some talentless performers who are just lucky are jerks, some are down-to-earth and nice.
Bubba 2 Guns wrote: [quote]I once asked Coco Lee to dance when I was at a now closed nightclub in Taipei that Maoman (when he had a ponytail, a six pac stomach and wore suits) would frequent.
It was a magnet for the Shitterati who would park there Ferrais and Porshes bought with mom’s money and bad music deals in front of this vapid joint.
I saw this luscious curveature of the female anatomy and slithered over in my best lounge lizard tongue flicker style, leaned over so as not to pour the contents of my martini glasss down my feshly pressed trouser leg and said,
“Hey Mommy-want to take Daddy to the bingo game with those tight pants and read me all the numbers?”
Only it actually sounded like, “Haaa-waa-waa-hwa-minny ha ha pants-your smooth bingo bottom?”
From out of the shadows I was assualted and spirited away from the scene by an entourage and a few bouncers screaming-
“Don’t you know who that is!!! That’s Coco Lee!!! You can’t talk to her!!!” [/quote]
Don’t be too hard on Coco - she had a bad “drunken foreigner in Taiwan” experience back in the early 90s (before you ask, yes, it did involve Lord Lucan).
man, i am so cool even my entourage needs an entourage.
posers. it’s not like they are even good at what they do in most cases, the competition is too weak for that. a case of being a (little) big fish in a really small pool.
what about the case of the son of the famous singer/entertainer whose name (deservedly) escapes me, who last year went into a much publicised fit of depression when he was told (finally someone had the guts) that his singing was, at best, average…
how much air time did that exercise in vapidity waste?
i guess its not only true here but in hollywoodland as well.
does any one here think that paris hilton, nicole richie, or most of the other names on their invitation list deserve the fame they have heaped on them by a press more intent on selling magazine and airtime than actually saying anything useful? it is a self fulfilling prophecy once the gossip mags get their teeth into you. famous for being famous.
the press here also operates in the same kind of reality vacuum that establishes an identical vapid and vacuous self-worth that we get from ET This Week and Who? magazine. and they sell millions of copies. people can be real dopes sometimes.
[quote=“Poagao”]We once interviewed Coco Lee. She had an impressively large entourage, spent a lot of time in makeup and said equally impressively stupid things. Her opinion of herself is far in excess of most cover singers.
In contrast, when we interviewed Zhang Zhen-yue, he just came by himself and “makeup” for him consisted of adjusting his baseball hat.[/quote]
My friend performed with Zhang Zhen-Yue (they’re now friends) and he says the guy is one of the most humble and down-to-earth guys you could meet AND he has got real talent too.
Theposter sounds like he should watch more cable and US movies rather than focusing on the stars here (not that i’m defending them).
Really? One of my proudest sporting moments was being told to fuck off when I asked Mike Gatting for his autograph when I was twelve. It was a county cricket at Middlesex and he’d just been bowled for about three, as I recall.
Scott Thompson of Kids in the Hall and The Larry Sanders Show was waiting to be interviewed for Queercorps, a gay programming show on McGill’s CKUT radio. I was prepping my entertainment roundup when I noticed him sitting all by his lonesome. I struck up a convo with him and it was going really well. So I asked him if he’d like to go on air with me. He hemmed, hawed and told me he was on vacation and yadda yadda yadda. I told him no problem. He then asked me, “Am I being a cunt?” I quickly assured him he was the furthest thing from it. He then relented and I grabbed the Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet LP from the stacks and asked the DJ to play it. She told me to get lost. She changed her mind right quick when she saw who was standing behind me. He was humble, funny and charming. A class act.
Later that summer, during the Juste Pour Rire fest, I got the chance to interview Bill “The Spaceman” Lee, the all time greatest pitcher ever to hurl Mr. Spalding. This guy was such an easy interview. I just pointed the mike at him and away he rambled. He even talked about drinking up in the Hollywood Hills with Warren Zevon. Zevon wrote a song about him and it appeared on the Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School album.
I even interviewed Didi Ramone. Stupid but affable.
I would trade all that for a chance to interview Xiao S. I think she is hilarious. I love her take no bullshit attitude. Sorry theposter. Different strokes…
