An alarming handful of e-mails have come into the inbox at the Home Office asking what I have against Jackie Chan and why I keep featuring negative articles about him. Further, I do not believe that I have been running negative articles about Chan. In fact, I have purposefully left out some of the more outrageous articles. I ran the recent Straits Times pieces because I believed that they were a good summary of the events that have occurred in the past weeks and because they offered a good summary of the Star East chat session Chan held. The only reason I included that was because I thought the line was somewhat funny.
Celebrity is a powerful phenonmenon that tends to cause people to see things in extremes.
I mean we either become very forgiving or very unforgiving of celebrities. Therefore, I do not take offense from a couple of the more irate e-mails I received denouncing the content on Chan. I just want to make it clear that I do not hate Jackie Chan. I honestly fail to see how anyone could arrive at the perception that I have something against Chan. Not only did I not run or write anything exceedingly negative about him, I ran a letter from Christine Mullen, President of the Jackie Chan Fan Club in Australia, supporting him.