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...SUED. JET LI, 42, charismatic Chinese martial-arts star; by the descendants of Qing-dynasty kung fu master Huo Yuanjia, whom Li portrayed in the recent film Fearless; in Beijing. Huo's relatives say that the movie contains many inaccuracies about his life?for example, that he killed innocent people for sport?and maligns the family's reputation. The suit, which also names as defendants the movie's producers and distributors, calls for the film to be pulled from theaters and a public apology to be issued...
...disdain for arms control - led the military to launch dozens of programs that the nation never could afford to build. To make his case, he began publishing yearbooks entitled Soviet Military Power. The soft-cover books were emblazoned with scary artists' renderings of the communists' latest and greatest martial hardware, warning that the U.S. was falling behind. "There is nothing hypothetical about the Soviet military machine," the inaugural 1981 volume said. "Its expansion, modernization, and contribution to projection of power beyond Soviet boundaries are obvious." Of course, the Soviets' key expansion at that time was into Afghanistan, from which they...
...technical legerdemain and vaulting athleticism, LOTR can't match K?, Cirque's Las Vegas martial-arts extravaganza. The Toronto show's battle scenes are pedestrian, and toward the end, a group of fierce warriors breaks into a heavy two-step, like clumsy backup singers in a doo-wop group. But this isn't an all-singing show, and it certainly isn't all dancing. It is a musical that becomes a spectacular morality play, an adventure with a soft and stricken heart...
This LOTR can't match Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas martial-arts extravaganza Ką for soaring athleticism or technical legerdemain. The visualization of battle scenes is often pedestrian, and toward the end, the choreography makes the Orcs look less like brutal mercenaries than clumsy backup singers. But if the show's ingenuity stumbles now and then, its narrative is always clear and plangent. It locates the melancholy soul at the heart of Tolkien's adventure story...
...stage production of The Lord of the Rings is barreling through a rehearsal of its most complicated scene when the pounding martial music stops, the smoke machines fizzle out and the 40-ton moving stage whirs to a halt. "Joe, are you aware you didn?t die on arrow two?" choreographer Peter Darling asks one of the Orc actors, who today are dressed in t-shirts and track pants. ?Your crutches have to whack...