Who under the age of 50 remembers Charlie Chan? Like his more bloodcurdling kinsman, Dr. Fu Manchu, and like Stepin Fetchit, Amos and Andy, and many other racial stereotypes who once populated ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. When Warner Oland died in 1938, 20th Century Fox wasn’t about to lose one of its most lucrative products, so they quickly replaced ...

Action speak louder than French. Door of opportunity swing both ways. Smart fly keep out of gravy. Tongue often hang man quicker than rope. All gems of fortune-cookie-worthy wisdom spoken by Charlie ...

Why weren't Chinese actors cast as Chinese detective Charlie Chan? Because the movies were made in Hollywood in a less enlightened time, when it wasn't deemed inappropriate for Edward G. Robinson or ...

Charlie Chan, the wise and strategically polite Chinese detective given to pseudo-Confucian aphorisms, came to life on the pages of six popular novels and flourished in a remarkable run of 47 ...

CHARLIE Chan, the fictional detective of novels, film and television, solved dozens of mysteries, but there is still one Chan mystery film historian Steve Fredrick would like to solve: He’d like to ...

Yunte Huang's "Charlie Chan," which hit bookstores this week, looks at the real-life roof-jumping, opium den-busting cop upon whom the book and movie character was based, and it explores how the ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. When the studio ran out of Earl Derr Biggers’ Charlie Chan novels to film, the solution was to place the character in new stories ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

The revival of a 42-year-old documentary on the fictional Chinese detective Charlie Chan has reignited the controversy surrounding that character specifically and, more generally, the portrayal of ...