kenichiku wrote:Yeah well, they wouldn't even have 70 if a few dedicated contributors (I'm sure a few of you here who moonlight there too) including myself didn't fatten up Lydia's entry with valid stuff over there the past few years. I can say to you that their staff on different occasions has admitted to me their weakness in the very area that you folks excel at but taking your comments to any form of action is another discussion for your front office, but I agree wholeheartedly.
Honestly, I'm not sure why you good folks (whomever you are) bother over there sometimes, but I gotta give you props for trying, being as the IMDB
is the most referenced movie database on the planet, for better or worse. But, while I agree that the IMDB needs —and benefits from—your efforts, I wonder if it will all be worth it when one considers just how
long it will take to make, for example, Lydia Shum's filmography
over there as good as it is
over here. I realize the IMDB allows for the inclusion of television programs and even interviews on chat shows, but should that option ever finally come into play here—and I suspect it will—it's likely that HKMDB will trump IMDB in short order.
It's certainly been nice testing google searches of Hong Kong movie titles recently and FINALLY seeing HKMDB entries come back in the first couple of pages of results, but I still say we could pimp this baby a little harder so that journos at places like Variety (
Variety, people!) and Yahoo know better than to go to the IMDB first when writing up a piece about Hong Kong entertainers. We may still have our own bugaboos here and there in the system, but nothing else even comes close at the moment (fan sites and forums aren't on the same level, though they should probably be consulted, too, in times like these).
so I've felt mighty proud about the little bio I typed in over there being one of the most gratifying I ever did because it was meant to send out a beacon from where I stand that there's show biz, fame & celebrity outside of Hollywood & Lydia's certainly deserving of it. It's odd now that the spirit of that blurb aligns with Donald Tsang's sentiments and what Shum's loss has meant for all of HK. I'm pretty sure I wrote that way before I knew she was even ill.
Excellent tirbute, sir! Not only does it help me figure out the identity of one of our most interesting voices
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it also belongs here, as do all of the others you've written. Okay, so maybe that's just my opinion, though I doubt it, and I'm pretty sure there would be no copyright issues with IMDB. A write-up like that is worthy of being attached to a more complete filmography. Just sayin' . . .
With that aside, what with all the public negativity that the present cadre of HK celebs have begat & imposed onto the airwaves & headlines with them literally being caught with their pants down, I really feel for the ordinary Joe who bust their asses day in and day out to eek out a living over there & having to go home and to turn on their TV to constantly listen to that onslaught and now to this.
Yeah, somehow I don't see Edison Chen or Gillian Chung achieving the kind of all-around goodwill and longevity that Lydia did even IF their careers survive the current circus that is their lives. Maybe others from their generation of actors/singers/faces, I don't know, but the current headlines only serve to reinforce my
personal suspicion that too many of today's HK celebs have simply got too much money and too much free time, and none of it as hard-earned as their predecessors who laid the groundwork from the 60's on up to the 90's. (relatively speaking, of course; this IS just entertainment after all)
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