Thursday November 20, 2003

Chinese Theatre

Epic Records released a new Michael Jackson album, “Number Ones,” on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2003.

From Those Were the Days:

On this date in…

“1984 – The largest crowd to see the unveiling of a Hollywood Walk-of-Fame star turned out as Michael Jackson got his piece of the sidewalk right in front of Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.

1971 – Isaac Hayes of Memphis, TN, got his first #1 hit as the ‘Theme from Shaft‘ began a two-week stay at the top of the charts.”

The above two Chinese characters
mean “Shaft One,” according to

The Source:

Unihan 3.1 data for U+4E95,

Unihan 3.1 data for U+4E28.

Hayes won an Oscar for best song.

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2 Comments

  1. Getting shafted, premature withdrawl and Southern Drawls.

    There’s something goin’ on heyah . . .

  2. Interesting connection. However, Chinese for 1 (one) is usually written in laterally (-) not vertically as shown.

    Can you tell me where the number sign (#) came from? 

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