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...think the movie is about Jesus getting the clap. But action fans will recognize the acronym of a once-renowned action star - the former European middleweight karate champ known as the Muscles from Brussels in such middling fare as Universal Soldier and No Retreat, No Surrender. Van Damme's career trajectory over the last decade has been direct-to-video; so he must have figured that, when he was offered the chance to play himself, more or less, as a hapless has-been who gets enmeshed in a bank robbery, he had nothing to lose. He was right: JCVD...
...movie bears comparison to Mickey Rourke's turn in The Wrestler, also at Toronto. Except that this one is sharper, crueler, way funnier - part parody, part exposé, especially in an eight-minute take of the star in closeup, where Van Damme makes a confession of his personal and career sins, and the tough guy ends up crying. It is the finest, most scab-pulling performance I saw in Toronto, and it should earn JCVD a commercial showcase in the States...
...After a tough 3-0 loss against American (5-3) in the opening match, the Crimson (1-3) came back to secure a 3-1 victory against CCSU (3-5), marking its first win of the season as well as head coach Jen Weiss’ 200th career victory.But Harvard’s success was short-lived, as No. 22 Long Beach State (8-1) overpowered the Crimson, 3-1, in the finale.LONG BEACH STATE 3, HARVARD 0The 49ers proved to be too much, sweeping Harvard in the final event of the Invitational, 25-17, 25-11, 25-8.Long Beach landed...
...life and could never be." It's as if Pacino was admitting that his bantam-weight hyper-hammery, the excesses of yelling and kvelling and strutting and posturing, were his way of compensating for not having the still center of rage that Bobby D. located early in his career and made...
...more." Beyond the indignities of aging that all actors inevitably face, Pacino and De Niro have both appeared in a string of bad films that damaged their personal brands. For Pacino, now 68, dogs like Gigli, The Recruit and 88 Minutes are fresher in audiences' minds than his career-making performances in The Godfather and Scarface. And the money-making but vapid comedies De Niro, 65, has turned in, like Meet the Fockers and Analyze That, feel a lot more than a generation removed from the actor's iconic turns in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull...