Se7en cancelled the scheduled performance last minute at the 2008 JCPenny Asian Excellence Awards in Los Angeles. Instead, he presented the Outstanding Film Actor award to Tony Leung. How Se7en like!

But Se7en must have a clear grasp of his status in the states by attending the D-list awards show. They nominated Maggie Q in Balls of Fury and Vanessa Hudgens in High School Musical 2 for Outstanding Film Actress. Rush Hour 3 was a nominee in the Outstanding Film category, and Rob Schneider was given the Half Asian Award!

The Asian Excellence Awards will air May 1st on E!.

What a disappointing interview! Despite the time constraint and the request to ask only Speed Racer related questions, I expected better things to come out of Rain’s mouth but I guess I was expecting too much from the Engrish speaking star.

After being told that Rain wants to hold the interview in English, I asked him about his character in the movie and why we should fall in love with him. I expected some in-depth analysis of his character, Taejo, but instead he went on about how he signed on with the movie because he trusted the Wachowski brothers among some other things that weren’t interesting.

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Se7en, another American Dreamer, is throwing his second party in LA and this time, he’ll actually perform three songs he introduced at his White Day Party in NYC to impress the label execs and corporate sponsors expected to attend.

It looks like this party will either break or make Se7en’s US debut. Although it’s not hard to predict the outcomes of Se7en’s Album Preview Party, I’m curious to see how the big shots from Interscope Records, Jive, Sony, KOCH, BET and Verizon will react when they see an Asian ESL student imitating hip-hop artists on stage.

In his first Hollywood movie, Jang Hyuk is in Singapore to promote his new film, “Dance of the Dragon” with Jason Scott Lee and Singaporean actress Fann Wong.

This is Jang-Hyuk’s first English speaking role, so we are curious on how good his English is. In movie trailer 1, the Korean actor does not say a word, so we don’t know how his speaking skills are. But in trailer 2, he stutters out 1 short sentence, “But I’m….I’m a dancer.” (at 1.07). Is this an indication of what’s to come?

From the trailer alone, the movie looks mildly interesting. But we can’t judge a book by its cover, now can we?

Dance of the Dragon is a modern day tale of love, passion, courage and hope that blends dance and martial arts.

The world premiere of Dance of the Dragon will be held in Singapore on Wednesday April 24^th and then opens in theaters in Singapore May 1^st, 2008 and in the U.S. on May 15^th.

Movie trailer #2.

Next up…. Rain.