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...desk drawer as a truncheon. He sneaks past a sentry's guardhouse outside the evil inspecteur's police station and, just to show he can, he rams his foot through his guardhouse door, neatly kicking the sentry in the groin. Inside, he chances upon 20 martial-arts students armed with clubs. Not a problem: he levels five of them with five quicker-than-the-eye maneuvers. At the end, he faces off against a tall, blond, muscular baddie who does five fast handsprings toward Liujian. Li sees his move and tops it with a triple twist that breaks...
...nicer if the film let us see its lithe star work his martial artistry, and not chop it into minute bits of film. Nahon seems not to know that Hong Kong action fighting is dancing and, like a Fred Astaire number, it needs to be shot in relatively long takes. When the Chinese chop things up, they toss them in a wok and eat them...
...star of the people's republic wushu team at 11, a star of the mainland hit The Shaolin Temple at 16. At 25 Li Lianjie came to Hong Kong, got the name Jet Li and brought a ferocious stateliness to such martial epics as Once Upon a Time in China and Fong Sai Yuk. At 35 he played in his first big U.S. film, Lethal Weapon 4, and showed Mel Gibson how real men fight: with stern grace and fatal feet. His debut as a Hollywood star, in Romeo Must Die, took in $100 million world- wide. He has just...
...Lawns cooperative teaches anarchists to grow their own vegetables. "Some anarchists want to smash it all, but others are into mutual aid." The Shamrock House, an anarchist community center, offers free food for the poor, a lending library of leftist books and a free school with classes on martial arts and midwifery. Every Thursday, a shamanic healer offers "deep soul work" and "aura repair...
...lady-turned-auteur with Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, is courting her for a script to be shot in China, based on Yan Geling's novel, The Lost Daughter of Happiness. And last week Shu Qi signed up with one of the region's most sought-after directors, martial arts supremo Corey Yuen. His new project, Sunset Angels?which, as was inevitable, is being touted as a Chinese Charlie's Angels?is backed by Columbia Pictures Asia and will start shooting in Hong Kong in August...