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...Each discipline was named for an animal, whose names often made it into the movies' titles. One of teenage Jackie's first lead roles was in Little Tiger of Canton, aka Snake Fist Fighter. In 1978, his breakthrough year, he made Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin and Snake in Eagle's Shadow, and topped them off with Drunken Master, aka Drunken Monkey in the Tiger's Eye, aka Eagle Claw, Snake Fist, Cat's Paw, Part 2. (Hong Kong movies often had a different title for every East Asian country it played in.) As for the Furious Five, they...
...should learn a few phrases ahead of time. Here’s one to get you started: “zhe shi she ma zhong de ro?” (“What kind of meat is this?”). 7) Leave your perpetual caffeine drip (aka travel mug) at home. In China people carry tea around in glass jars. 8) When taking a cab, if you’re in the know, you’ll ride up front. 9) There are no fortune cookies in China... 10) ...Instead, your fortune is up to you: the color...
Oscar turned 80 tonight, and his birthday party, aka the Academy Awards, had the tone and pace suitable to an octogenarian's temper. A few little surprises - Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose for Best Actress, Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton for Supporting Actress - but no big ones that might have sent a murmur through the golden olden dude's nervous system. No Country for Old Men took its four expected awards: Picture, Director (for Joel and Ethan Coen), Adapted Screenplay (the brothers Coen again) and Sepulchral Menace (Javier Bardem). Daniel Day-Lewis, of There Will Be Blood...
...Jude’s encounters with Michelle Williams’s Coco (aka Edie Sedgwick...
...Lucille Ball: I love Lucy. Life is a series of awkward events, and you might as well face it with a quirky sense of humor. Lucy shows that you can revel in your inner you and still get a hubby with a foreign accent. 2. Helen Parr (aka Elastigirl; aka Mrs. Incredible): Not just a metaphoric superhero, Helen Parr is also a literal one. She proves that there are all sorts of advantages to being flexible—like saving the day. 1. The Wife of Bath: Said to be one of the first feminist characters in literature, Chaucer?...