Word: seagal
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...practitioner, while Harrison Ford simply supports Tibetan freedom (his wife Melissa Mathison wrote Kundun's script). Composer Philip Glass, yes. REM singer Michael Stipe, maybe. And in one of the more peculiar occurrences along the Hollywood-Lhasa axis, action-film star and all-around surly guy Steven Seagal was recognized by the head of the venerable Nyingma Tibetan lineage as the reincarnation of a 15th century lama...
...like winning an Oscar, but STEVEN SEAGAL has a new line for his resume. The action star has become a Buddhist and has reportedly given money to the Tibetan cause. Now he has earned a title for his efforts--tulku, recognition that he's a reincarnated lama (that's the priest, not the beast). The honor was awarded by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche, Supreme Head of the Nyingma lineage and the 11th Throneholder of the Palyul monastery. Not all Buddhists are happy about the award. There are accusations that tulku titles are being sold...
...while fighting off a brood of bad guys. (Gape in envy, Keanu Reeves!) In The Armour of God II: Operation Condor he drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane. (Page your stunt double, Mr. Seagal!) In Project A, improving on the clock-tower hanging scene from Lloyd's Safety Last, Chan falls from the sky-high tower through two awnings and crashes to earth-on his head. (Tiptoe away, Lloyd's of London...
...Steven Seagal's most inane epic...
...Director Seagal can't shoot straight either. The choppy pace and inane plot exertions make On Deadly Ground a $40 million vanity epic. At least Warner Bros., Seagal's sponsor, cut the star's climactic lecture on the environment -- antibusiness and boldly pro-plankton -- from a reported 10 minutes to just over three. It's fine to think an audience is stupid but not to leave it in a stupor...