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...Hong Kong. The martial arts movie star was one of the first Chinese celebrities to achieve an international following, putting Hong Kong's film industry on the map in the early 1970s with kung fu classics like Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon. His grace, brashness and fame gave Hong Kong residents a superstar who was one of their...
...film is true to the severe, austere code of the Mennonites. Yet it is shot with such care and creativity that each scene has a visual, emotional luster. One critic jokingly called Silent Light the best film ever made in its language - an easy claim to fame, since it is probably the only film in which the characters speak Plautdietsch, the form of Low German used by the sect in Europe, Latin America and Canada. One could make a grander claim: that this is among the finest recent foreign films. And to viewers conditioned to the speed and swagger...
West, a Hall of Fame basketball player, led the L.A. Lakers to four titles as general manager
King is a Hall of Fame tennis player and champion of gender equity in sports
...salary-cap structure and a draft that gives the worst teams access to the best young talent in a young man's game, create leaguewide parity - going winless is awfully hard to do. "It's mind-boggling to me," says Troy Aikman, the Fox Sports analyst and Hall of Fame ex-quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, who lived through a nightmarish 1-15 season himself as a rookie back in 1989. Several teams have managed to put together only one victory in a season, including the 2007 Miami Dolphins and the 2000 San Diego Chargers. But failing...