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...just four days off between these films. Did you practice kicking in doors in your ball gowns? It was the stupidest thing I've ever done. The second half of Pride & Prejudice, I was getting up an hour before call time and training on my nunchaku...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 6, 2006 | 2/26/2006 | See Source »

...Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek International Airport the morning Lien boarded the plane. Hundreds of pro-independence supporters, accusing Lien of "selling out Taiwan," clashed with his well-wishers. Fists, stones and eggs were thrown. Old men were beaten to the ground. One man was struck with a nunchaku, the martial-arts fighting weapon. Afterward, tough-talking Vice President Annette Lu described the incident as "unfortunate," but said she wasn't too displeased about the international news coverage?because it emphasized that Taiwan was not united behind Lien's visit. "He is cooperating with the Communists to downgrade the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guest of Honor | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...says he no longer harbors resentment against the Communists and says the ghosts of the civil war should be laid to rest. "We are all Chinese," says Wu. "It is time for peace." That's the kind of dispassion needed for progress in the Taiwan Strait?rather than a nunchaku...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guest of Honor | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...villains, spins in the air to kick five guys at once, strips the belt off one oaf and hog-ties him with it, and goes spectacularly hand-to-hand with Asian-American lookers Russell Wong and Francoise Yip. In the battle with Yip, Li uses Aaliyah as a human nunchaku. "I rehearsed for that scene with Corey for a month," Aaliyah says, "but Jet and I didn't hook up until the day we shot. That's how dope he is; he doesn't even have to rehearse. He just comes to the set and fights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: No Cooling This Jet | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...nunchaku are dangerous and hard to maneuver," Merrill said. "Occasionally during a demonstration I've dropped them, but they've never flown out into the audience...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Kung Fu and the Art of Not Flinching | 2/6/1981 | See Source »

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