{"id":465482,"date":"2026-05-29T03:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/465482\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T03:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:49:11","slug":"on-this-day-jackie-chan-sly-stallone-among-stars-at-1994-planet-hollywood-opening-scmp-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/465482\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day | Jackie Chan, Sly Stallone among stars at 1994 Planet Hollywood opening \u2013 SCMP archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rickshaw rider Sly comes in for some tough questioning<\/p>\n

By Alison Wiseman<\/p>\n

This article was first published on May 30, 1994<\/p>\n

Tough-guy Sylvester Stallone came in for some even tougher questioning as he drew up to the Planet Hollywood launch party in a maiden drawn rickshaw last night (May 29, 1994).<\/p>\n

\"ActorActor Sylvester Stallone arrives in a rickshaw for the opening night of Planet Hollywood outlet in Hong Kong in 1994. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n

But when compere Paul Fonoroff asked him if his entrance was politically correct he managed to come up with an answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolitically correct? I don\u2019t know … but it felt great,\u201d mused Sly.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyway, who am I to go against custom,\u201d he added, after a little thought.<\/p>\n

But it was then to the long-awaiting crowds in Canton Road that he turned, and caused near pandemonium when he went walk-about, although the bodyguards were never far away to ensure that things didn\u2019t get out of hand.<\/p>\n

Would-be star-gazers began staking out their vantage points at about 4.30 pm as police closed off the road to traffic, only to find they had almost four hours to go before somebody approaching a major celebrity rolled up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rickshaw rider Sly comes in for some tough questioning By Alison Wiseman This article was first published on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[216415,216412,6425,216419,6223,146,216414,216417,85,46,35070,109417,169340,216416,216418,216413,856,129505],"class_list":["post-465482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alison-wiseman","tag-angela-chow","tag-bruce-willis","tag-canton-road","tag-charlie-sheen","tag-entertainment","tag-flora-cheong-leen","tag-hong-kong-hotel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jackie-chan","tag-james-belushi","tag-jean-claude-van-damme","tag-planet-hollywood","tag-robert-earl","tag-steven-seagal","tag-sylvester-stallone","tag-tsim-sha-tsui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}