Word: jawed
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...stars measure their worth by how many millions of dollars they make. Jackie Chan, Asian action-star extraordinaire, measures his by how many of his bones he has fractured while executing his films' incredible stunts. Let him count the breaks: "My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee-everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet." Chan broke an ankle while jumping onto a moving Hovercraft in his new film, Rumble in the Bronx, which opened in time for Chinese New Year last week. Fans...
...Monday, during the third quarter of the Portland Trailblazer's 120-82 thrashing of the Houston Rockets, Rockets guard Vernon Maxwell charged up a dozen rows into the Portland Memorial Coliseum crowd and cold-cocked a 35-year-old fan, Atlanta home products salesman Steve George, in the jaw...
...professional athlete and performer, Maxwell's explanation rings hollow. Somehow, he wants us to believe that fan's words were harsh enough to deserve a right hand to the jaw. Is that possible...
...told, Branagh does not seem quite fitting for the role. While he executes Shakespeare with finesse and a startling accessibility, his chubby-cheeked, doughy countenance is a mismatch for the role. True, he manages to convey the youth of Henry but when the role demands the handsome, strong-jaw-boned fierceness of a young firebrand, he is somewhat limited by the wimpiness of his looks. In spite of these handicaps, however, he admirably manages to convince us of his common humanity--he is one with his men and his dedication to Mother England...
Then one day the young Marais (played by Depardieu's son, Guillaume) shows up on Sainte Colombe's doorstep asking to be his student, Guillaume Depardieu possesses an angelic beauty and the camera dots generously on his face, studying it and worshipping it. His square jaw is offset by soft, plump lips, a long nose, and a lion's golden mane that cascades around his face like honey. He is able to be at once fey and masculine, crude and innocent. Few actors' looks are so captivating that all they have to do in a scene is give a certain...