Someone at an informed level seems to be leaking information on the Jaycee Chan drugs case with gleeful disregard for the judicial process. And we’re not just talking about CCTV.
Jaycee Chan: as NWA might say, a snitch is a snitch/ if you’re poor or rich
In the hopes of avoiding getting bored to death in a Chinese prison cell, film “star” Chan has allegedly spilled on his friends like an action hero, according to Liberty Times, a Taiwanese newspaper.
The “laundry list” contains up to 120 names including a singer with a Taiwanese band “whose surname starts with F, has invested in two night clubs in Taiwan and his family has strong connections with the military.”
Who could it possibly be? Netizens point to Johnny Fei, whose father is a general – but the latter has already told the media, they got the wrong Johnny.
It’s long been known that you need to be on drugs to properly enjoy Mando-pop; it’s vaguely reassuring to learn, then, that its producers are suffering with us. Look forward, then, to a long series of arrests of artists whose work is but a footnote on the arse grapes of musical history.
Meanwhile, a letter that pusillanimous performing-arts associations have been made to sign, pledging not to hire any musicians guilty of drug crimes, has supposedly been leaked [NOTE: the authenticity of this letter has not been verified]
The letter, leaked on Weibo
Dear Singers and Actors,
How are you?
I’m writing this letter with grave worries and anxiety. As you must have heard, many showbiz professionals have been busted for whoring and doping recently, and the suddenly toughened-up mainland media environment for entertainers is making us very concerned.
As a major entertainment group, we feel we are duty bound to notice our entertainers of the importance to abide by law and morality. Please, actors, do not give yourself excuses like “releasing the pressure and relieving oneself” to bring unforeseeable disasters to yourself and the company.
But since we hold the attitude to “always stick with our people,” we have some sweet advice, as below, for you. Please make sure you follow these:
1) Reject invitations to any party involving drugs and report to the company truthfully with absolutely truth [sic]. Keep yourself completely uninvolved with drugs and we won’t allow serious doping problems like Chan and Ke to occur
2) Those with more colorful private life, we advise you to use Liebao Cleaning Master [a smartphone app to delete junk files and boost running speed] to have your personal information cleansed thoroughly, protected and avoid being leaked.
3) Reject your friends or other people in the business’s invitations and seduction to go to places linked to prostitution and report to the company about such things. Saving racy pictures is prohibited and we don’t allow incidents like Edison Chan to happen
4) Be careful of your image and stay low-key at bars, clubs etc, and avoid things that damage your image, like drinking, smoking and swearing in public
Please do follow the four pieces of advice above. I’m bloody begging you now.
Yes, it’s tough being successful in China these days. Officials get vanished, Big Vs are squashed, businessmen fear looting and movie stars get treated like 13 year olds. It looks like the PRC may never get that Cypress Hill tour.
“…pledging not to hire any musicians guilty of drug crimes…”
Bill Hicks, anyone? Take all your favorite records and burn ‘em.
As it happens, I quite like (comparatively) the honeyed complaisance of Mando-pop. It’s at least better than having sex shoved down my ears like with American pop.
Snitches get riches, yo.
yawn – its really a none event. the only sexiness to the whole story is that his father – Jackie Chan – is universally despised in HK for his commie shoe polishing, and also the “Ambassador against Drugs” for the PRC – on top of his position as a Rep on the “people’s (really ?) representative council (consisting of 10000 yes man lackies). the young Chan is a spoilt brat who lavishes the old man’s $ on drug fuelled parties, and confessed to be on drugs since 2006, and poor Jackie has no clue of same. they should lock him up and throw away the key – finding over 150Gms of the sweet grass in his possession (punishable by death with that kind of quantity), and yet appears to be let off lightly and charged with the much lesser offence of “allowing others to partake”, what a great way to administer justice – in commie land – the lady of justice ‘s blindfold is no more than ray bans, appears so anyway.
This is a lesson. You can’t get out of line or you will get blacklisted. But at the same time, being a “useful idiot”–like Jackie Chan has been–confers precious little advantage either.
Court jester in the CCP dynasty