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...laggard who undergoes rigorous training to become a great fighter, is familiar from many Jackie Chan films, including the one that made him a star, Drunken Master. Fans of Chang Cheh's Five Venoms movies will have no trouble spotting this movie's Furious Five: the Crane (David Cross), Viper (Lucy Liu), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Tigress (Angelina Jolie) and Monkey - voiced by Chan himself, as a way of lending his vocal blessing to the project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartoon Pandas, Animated Nightmares | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...80s—you may remember him as Young Indy in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” In 1993, at age 23, River died of a heroine and cocaine overdose outside of a club on the Sunset Strip called the “Viper Room.” The club was partially owned by Johnny Depp, whose early film career (started at age 21 with “A Nightmare on Elm Street”) was ironically also marked by success and drug abuse.Next on the list is Drew Barrymore. After exploding onto...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Meat Market: Child Stars and Their Agents | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

MOCKINGBIRD: A PORTRAIT OF HARPER LEE CHARLES J. SHIELDS IN 1956 A SHY but viper-tongued young Southerner sneaked into a literary agent's office to drop off a manuscript. "I prayed for a quick death," she said later, "and forgot about it." But the world hasn't forgotten Harper Lee or her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The enigmatic, reclusive Lee, now 80, has never published another book and (like her idol, Jane Austen) has never married. She didn't cooperate with this biography, which relies on early interviews and diligent research, but the glimpses we get are tantalizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Guilt-Free Pleasures to Read at the Beach | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

When General Motors asked Bob Lutz to revive its product line in 2001, the thinking was that if anyone could do it, he was the man. The charismatic, brash ex-Marine fighter pilot had led the development at Chrysler of such hot cars as the Dodge Viper and PT Cruiser, and he wasn't shy about criticizing GM for cranking out the dullest metal in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why GM May Not Be Dead | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

...recent session, the kids eagerly discussed how to defeat their current opponents—a dragon and an ether snake. “The daylight spell you guys have just used is sucked up by the viper and it has weakened it...What are you going to do now?” Maene asked one of the players, Giulio Marchetti...

Author: By Deanna Dong, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mastering the Dragon | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

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