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...premise of one man and three kids is a mild twist on the plot of Robin-B-Hood, one of the later, lesser action comedies Chan made back home, in which three men are put in charge of one baby. There, the infant was essentially a prop for the stunts and comedy: it revolves inside a washing machine, sucks hard on Jackie's nipple and, during a car chase, is tied to the back of a fast-moving security van. (At the climax it gets revived with jumper cables.) In Hollywood movies such behavior is unacceptable; it's children...
...moments summon the mood of those Cantonese-language classics, as when Chan gently sings a Chinese lullaby to the four-year-old. In another scene he tells Farren that, back in Hong Kong, he'd been an orphan raised in a foster home: "I had dozens of brothers and sisters," he says, "and I wasn't related to any of them. But I loved them all." Any Chan fan will know that this dialogue refers to the martial arts school where Jackie was sent at 7; where he studied with later costars Yuen Biao and Sammo Hung; and where...
Cornell junior Karlee Overguard found the back of the net with 4.4 seconds left on the clock, forcing No. 6 Harvard (8-4-4, 6-4-2 ECAC) to settle for a 4-4 draw with the No. 10 Big Red (8-7-3, 7-1-3) at Bright Hockey Center...
...solution, but as negotiations continue between House and Senate leaders over final legislative language, the idea of lessening the Medicaid burden for states is gaining traction. "Senator Nelson's deal has been a blessing to those states like New York that were feeling left out. It brought the issue back into public recognition," says James Tallon, a former New York state assemblyman and current president of the United Hospital Fund, a nonprofit philanthropic group that studies health care in New York. (See 10 players in health care reform...
...Many analysts worry that the detention of Freeman and Marsilli signals a reversal of the Vietnamese government's widely lauded market reforms. With spiraling inflation and the global financial crisis taking a bite out of the country's crucial export sector, some say government hardliners have responded by rolling back economic and personal freedoms. Late last year, Vietnam blocked Facebook and Twitter and arrested a number of pro-democracy activists. Jetstar Pacific, as the only joint venture domestic airline in Vietnam, could have become a target for conservatives who resent giving up control to the private sector - especially as Jetstar...