Word: cops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speak of The Desk, the 20-ft.-long, T-shaped mahogany table once shared by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. From this monolith the two producers launched enough script-to-screen missiles to become Hollywood's premier action faction. Their two-hour commercials for American machismo (Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Bad Boys, Crimson Tide) made stars of their young actors and quillions for S. and B. Then in January of last year, Simpson died at 52 of a drug overdose. The industry asked, Whither--or wither--Jerry...
...withered maiden; he is Ichabod Crane, humiliated to death by the village nitwit. The only way he gains respect is to become Glenn Ford in Blackboard Jungle and beat up the classroom hoods. There are exceptions like Mr. Holland's Opus. But the rule is Arnold in Kindergarten Cop...
Asia's top female action star is new in Los Angeles, but already the locals know her as the woman who matched Jackie Chan stunt for impossible stunt in Police Story III: Super Cop. And maybe they think that punishing her body for film art--by, say, leaping off the top of a runaway truck to land splat! on the hood of Chan's speeding convertible--is all Michelle Yeoh does. She recalls that on one of her first L.A. photo shoots, "The beautician told me, 'You know, for a stuntwoman you have gorgeous nails.' Well, thank...
...wouldn't guess from her easy assurance that no Asian actress has ever become a star in big-time films in the West. But Yeoh, 34, has always known how to handle herself. Consider the first scene in her first starring role, as a Hong Kong cop in the 1985 Yes, Madam: she walks into a library and, when a man exposes himself, slams a fat book shut on his offending member. She is a master of lightning kicks, splits and somersaults; she's also handy with firearms. A little Diaghilev, a little Dirty Harry...
After four starring roles, Yeoh wed Dickson Poon, her patron at D&B Films, and, at 25, retired from acting. The marriage ended four years later, and Chan quickly offered her a part as his kick-butt co-star in Super Cop. In some later roles she got to play ultra-glam goddesses, her long hair caressed by a brisk wind even when she's indoors. Typically, though, she was cast as the superwoman who not only fights like a man but also is mistaken for one. "I don't treat myself like a woman," she tells a suitor...