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...Rollins in concert is kung fu, then This is What I Do is tai chi; reserved, but masterful nonetheless. Rollins is one of jazz's last living legends; this album reveals an artist comfortable with that mystique. B -Malik...
...Drunken Master, Chan's newest American release (though it was released in Hong Kong and Asia in 1994 and was shelved for six years before being revamped for American audiences) is definitely sobering. It's a funny movie, but only in the way that funny, badly dubbed Asian kung-fu movies with stupid appeal...
...always tell you it's about the craft. Being the character, living the memories, blah blah blah. Which is true--but let's not kid ourselves. Alba's role is a physical one, and not just because of the Matrix-y martial-arts scenes, for which she studied kung fu and gymnastics. In the Buffy age, you're no heroine if you're not a babe, and the curvy Alba, 19, was pegged as TV's next hot young thing a year before the show even debuted...
...around the 'team' concept become the Tom Cruise vanity show anyway? By the time Woo is finally allowed to unleash his bag-of-tricks near the end, he does admittedly pull off some spectacular sequences, most notably a high-octane motorcycle chase and a deliriously over-the-top kung-fu battle. But by the time we get to this sizzle, we've already had to endure far too much fizzle...
...Then Fu pauses, runs her hand through her streaked hair and grins. "Besides, if people are going to remember me, I don't want it to be with that silly old hairstyle." When a grownup Fu Mingxia takes to the board in Sydney, she'll be ready to show everyone who she is: mettle, grace and a stylish...