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...brothers have often collaborated as actors and stunt coordinators, billed as the Yuen Clan. In The Miracle Fighters, a delirious carnival of a film that plays like a ber-Cirque du Soleil, Yat-choh is the young hero, Cheung-yan a cranky lady wizard, Sunny the nasty Sorcerer Bat and Brandy a clown-face warrior condemned to live in a jar. In Mismatched Couples (1985), Wo-ping plays what has to be called the Jerry Lewis role. No abasement is too extreme: he barks on all fours, swallows nails, gets his head stuck in a fish bowl and squashed...
...that promised form e-mail, for Pete's sake. For a while longer, we just waited. It did occur to us that a lot of the jobs we wanted were being filled pretty quickly. Condoleezza Rice and Tommy Thompson swiped two of the really prime spots right off the bat, and it took us a few days to get over that disappointment, let us tell...
...parliament sought to ban the film. The bluster led to long lines outside theaters two days before its premiere. As Japan has seen a rash of violent youth crimes recently, the film hits close to home: the day Royale opened, a 17-year-old boy wielding a baseball bat injured eight. The film's director, KINJI FUKASAKU, 70, known for gangster films and the war epic Tora! Tora! Tora!, is unapologetic. He says he wanted to relate his experience as a teen sweeping up corpses from an arms factory bombed in World War II. Watch out: Series 7, a parody...
...naturalistic style stuck in my mind. I ended up at the same acting school he had attended, and in 1960 we did a TV movie of the play that had made him famous, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. We hit it off right off the bat, and he was extremely generous to me. In the play, when his character meets mine, he says, "We're members of the same lodge--in some way." Because of our personal connection, he invested that moment pretty heavily, and I'll never forget the line...
...Sync performs at bat mitzvah of AOL executive's daughter...