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The cable channel had been promoting the festival in recent weeks as part of a project, initiated in 1999, to restore and preserve 20th Century Fox archive materials -- including rare MovieTone News features, film trailers and short subjects that are aired routinely on the network. The project restored 24 "Charlie Chan" movies in 2001, including the rarely seen 1929 film
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The recent promotional campaign prompted Asian American activists to contact Fox and urge the network not to air the movies, which featured white Hollywood actors portraying author Charles Derr Biggers' popular Chinese sleuth.
"We among many groups raised the issue with them," said Karen Narasaki, Executive Director of the Washington
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Narasaki chairs a coalition of Asian American organizations that works with the major TV networks to increase opportunities for Asian Americans and other minorities both in front of and behind the camera. She told United Press International that Fox was getting "a lot of complaints from subscribers" about the Chan film program.
In a statement posted on its Web site announcing that it has discontinued the Chan festival, Fox said the films had been scheduled "to illustrate the positive aspects of these movies such as the complex story lines/characters and Charlie Chan's great intellect." Fox also said it had scheduled the series in response to requests from subscribers and film historians.
"However
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A spokesman for Fox told the Los Angeles Times that in retrospect, the decision to televise the movies was "something we should have looked at a little more closely from the beginning."
The movies feature Warner Oland and Sidney Toler in exaggerated makeup, speaking with thick dialects, as the brilliant detective in a series of mysteries that were popular among large numbers of American moviegoers several generations ago. Narasaki said the movies employed inappropriate stereotypes back then
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"It's a part of history," she said, "but I don't think it's a particularly good part of our history. I don't think it deserves revival as an art form."
Narasaki said Fox did the right thing by pulling the films from its schedule, particularly in view of the expense involved in restoring the movies.
"I applaud them," she said. "It's not easy ... to make a decision that cost them money, and I think they should be held up as a model."
Asked whether there might be an appropriate setting for exhibiting the Chan pictures, Narasaki said there might be -- "if you're studying racism and stereotyping in the movies, perhaps in an Asian American studies class."
On its Web site, Fox invited viewers to contact the network to express their thoughts on "the progress made in our modern
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Narasaki said she expects the network is hearing complaints from viewers who are offended that the network canceled the festival.
"I'm sure they are," she said. "We're getting some e-mails
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There has been talk in Hollywood of updating Charlie Chan with Lucy Lieu in the starring role. Narasaki said that would not be a problem.
"What's objectionable is that you have a show based around a white guy pretending to be Asian, playing off old tired stereotypes
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