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...while firing an M-16; less so while wearing tights. Aussie hunk HUGH JACKMAN'S Danskin moment arrives in the upcoming contempo-period piece hybrid, Kate & Leopold. In the film, Jackman portrays a 19th century English duke transported to the 21st century who--what else?--grows smitten with a Manhattan corporate climber (MEG RYAN). Having depicted high-testosterone men in X-Men and Swordfish, he says the role "was a big challenge, though I have quite a bit of English blood. I had to go back to England and hire a coach to teach me some manners." But experience...
DIED. RAY KELLY, 83, chum and mascot to Babe Ruth, whom he called a "second father"; of a heart attack; in Valley Cottage, N.Y. Ruth noticed Kelly one day as the three-year-old was playing catch with his dad in Manhattan's Riverside Park. For the next decade, "Little Ray" was a bench-warming lucky charm for the Yankees...
...because "in the United States, it doesn't matter if you have the right school tie or who your father was." But one contractor he brought in from Indonesia found the change unsettling. "One day he's riding his bike to work in Jakarta; the next he's in Manhattan," chuckles Kelman. The company nurtures its contractors on the road. Brayshaw says Dataworkforce phoned him weekly in Saudi Arabia to see how he was bearing up in the desert heat...
...that doesn't mean he's not serious about being a monk. At his U.S.A. Shaolin Temple, housed in a funky third-story loft in lower Manhattan, Yan Ming instructs nearly 500 students in Buddhism and kung fu from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. Eyes blazing, arms akimbo, voice roaring?picture Yul Brenner in The King and I?he exhorts his students to summon "more qi" and "train harder." "Occasionally" he admits, "I still forget that American students are different from Chinese. In China I could tell a kid to stand in the corner for two hours...
...famous were developed as a direct response to the way the monks had been portrayed in fiction and drama." If life at the Shaolin Temple has long imitated art, Yan Ming may be writing its newest chapter. Jet Li's next movie, rumor has it, is called Manhattan Monk...