. The amendment also allows later abortions to protect the life or health of pregnant women and creates a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom” that includes birth control, prenatal and postpartum care and “respectful birthing conditions.”
“Pat Morita, to me, he was the lead,” Ho said. “Also, if that were the only martial arts film out there, then yeah, it would be odd and I would be disappointed. But you gotta remember the ‘80s and ’90s we were living in the golden age of Jet Li, Jackie Chan, films that featured ... more authentic martial artists.”It’s a full-circle moment that Chan is one of the mentors in this new flick. Wang is still in disbelief he got to do combat choreography with the superstar.
“He’s the guy you think he is,” Wang said with a grin. “He doesn’t turn it off when he’s not on set.”Ho happily points out that “Karate Kid: Legends” is reinforcing how his 12-year-old twin sons are growing up without negative Asian stereotypes like he did. He’d rather a story have no Asians if the characters are going to be the butt of the joke. That history of stereotyping of Asian men is why he initially declined appearing on O’Brien’s show.“I thought ”Oh, he’s a tall guy. I’m a short, Asian guy. They’re just going to goof on me. They’re going to go off on me,’ so I said, ‘You know, I’m gonna be out of town,’” Ho said.
Luckily, the segments, which have earned millions of YouTube views, were crafted so Ho was the straight-man to O’Brien’s buffoonery.Twins Jonny and Ollie, in fact, are real-life karate kids. The boys, known as the “Twinjas,” know karate, mixed martial arts and other disciplines. They count Bruce Lee’s daughter, Shannon, as a friend. They’ve appeared on “America’s Got Talent,” “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and taught Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg moves. They love “Cobra Kai” for the drama and want to see “Legends” for Chan. They have since been introduced to the movie that started it all.
For Ollie, Miyagi was his favorite character.
“I think that in the first Karate Kids, how the teacher was Asian, I think being a teacher is better than being a student,” he said.in damage in the past. They usually reach the height of their strength in New England and eastern Canada. The storms often disrupt traffic and power grids and can cause
to homes and businesses.“We have a stronger jet stream, which is helping intensify a low pressure system that just happens to be coming up the coast. And so that’s how it got the nor’easter name,” said Kyle Pederson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Boston.
The heaviest rain is likely to fall in Rhode Island and southern and eastern Massachusetts, Pederson said. Localized nuisance flooding and difficult driving conditions are possible Thursday, and catastrophic flooding is not expected.The storm is then expected to pass, leaving light rain and patchy drizzle, on Friday.