Word: kombat
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...nerdy mouse jockey you're probably picturing. He was actually kind of a jock: he played baseball, football, golf, hockey, tennis, whatever. But it was in video games that he stood out. "When I was 12 to 15 years old, I went to arcades a lot and played Mortal Kombat 2 religiously," he says. "I used to bet against other guys who thought they were the big dogs, and I usually took home about $50 a night. For a 13-year-old, that's a lot of money...
...let’s leave it to the filmmakers to represent their over-caffeinated, half-crazed festival. This line is from “Kombat Kitchen,” in which the producer of an extreme cooking show is attempting to explain its popularity: “We know what the people want; a little ‘T&A,’ a little violence, and a whole lot of eating...
...kung-fu movies on outdoor screens during temple festivals. Soon he was aping his heroes and studying gymnastics as well as Muay Thai, an ancient Siamese boxing discipline that is a kind of combination of karate and kickboxing. He worked as a stunt man, doubling Robin Shou in Mortal Kombat, before director Prachya Pinkaew saw a reel of Jaa's best stunts and built Ong-Bak around...
...sought out the Thai stunt coordinator and low-budget action director Panna Ritthikrai, who took him on as a prot?g?. He went to a gymnastics college and soon found work as a stunt man in local and international films, including 1997's Mortal Kombat 2. Then he and Ritthikrai started devising their own stunts inspired by muay boran, a more elegant and traditional form of Thai boxing that resembles kung fu. Jaa traveled the countryside talking to the few remaining old masters of muay boran, rediscovering more than 100 long-abandoned moves. Ritthikrai and Jaa filmed the actor's best...
Midway Games makes Mortal Kombat and other popular video amusements yet hasn't turned a profit since 1999. Enter Zucker, 40, who knows something about turnarounds. He spent last year as COO of Playboy Enterprises and helped deliver its first profitable quarter in more than four years. At Midway, Zucker plans to focus operations on the company's best brands and genres and expand export sales from about 15% of revenue to the 40% to 45% achieved by its competitors...