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...whose real name is Phanom Yeeram, grew up in Thailand's rural northeast, a region most notable for its poverty and, in the early 1980s, the occasional mortar round fired across the Cambodian border by the Khmer Rouge. "Some days we'd be sitting down to dinner and the mortars would explode in the village, blowing out our windows and doors," Jaa says. He escaped these grim realities by viewing the films of Chan and Lee on outdoor screens at temple fairs. "It was powerful for me to watch," he says. "What they did was so beautiful, so heroic...
...busy filming his second movie, Tom Yum Goong, in Thailand and Australia, that he has no time to improve his wardrobe, his hairstyle or his English. "Bruce Lee couldn't speak Thai," Jaa says. "And I loved him, anyway...
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...group of them to Florida, the state that narrowly gave Bush victory over Al Gore in 2000, to canvass and "do whatever they need us to do to make sure Kerry wins." His ticket is being paid for with air miles donated by a sympathetic American expat in Thailand. Overseas voters "could just sit on the sidelines here," says Shannon. "But we saw what happened in 2000 [in Florida] and we don't want it to happen again...
What about bird flu? This year's flu shots (designed last spring) were not meant to protect against the bird flu that is infecting chickens and ducks and some people in Thailand and Malaysia. There is still no vaccine for bird...