Lee Jackson wrote in a message to Jonathan Fingas:
 JF> I recall you telling me that there's a surprise on the Shadow Warrior
 JF> CD.  Could you tell me what it is (I'm not a big fan of surprises)?
LJ> Well, Lo Wang gets his chance in front of a microphone, sort of. 
LJ> That's all I'm going to say on the subject.
 I'm afraid to ask.   ;)
 JF> on how well you did).  Of course, you probably got word that Elliot
 JF> Chin doesn't think too highly of Shadow Warrior!  He calls it racist
 JF> and ignorant.  But then, I don't think he's ever heard of this crazy
 JF> thing called "pop culture."
LJ> All you have to do is look at "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu"
LJ> (Peter Sellers) or "Kentucky Fried Movie" (the "Fistful of Yen"
LJ> sequence - Zucker/Abrams/Zucker) to see exactly what we did. Parody
LJ> of movie styles. Par-o-dy.  Look up an old rerun of "In Living
LJ> Color", or check out Eddie Murphy's "undercover assignment" as a
LJ> "white man" to see other parodies of this type.  No one complained
LJ> about this stuff, but they complain about ours.  Go figure.
 Besides being a parody, this is equally as brilliant as Eddie
 as the white man, or even Eddie as Mr. Robinson or Buckwheat.
 (Oooh! Imagine the scandal if they tried that today!)
 The pity is all this intelligent comedy sails right over the
 heads of all these P.C. critics.
 FUN, people!  Have some!
 On the other hand, if only SNL were as funny THESE days. 
 Patrick
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