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...Wong Fei-hung dramas. The brothers have often collaborated as actors and stunt coordinators, billed as the Yuen Clan. In The Miracle Fighters, a delirious carnival of a film that plays like a ber-Cirque du Soleil, Yat-choh is the young hero, Cheung-yan a cranky lady wizard, Sunny the nasty Sorcerer Bat and Brandy a clown-face warrior condemned to live in a jar. In Mismatched Couples (1985), Wo-ping plays what has to be called the Jerry Lewis role. No abasement is too extreme: he barks on all fours, swallows nails, gets his head stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yuen Wo-Ping, Martial Master | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...need to get your hands on a 53-passenger school bus with hydraulic brakes and a six-cylinder diesel engine. Or a 1998 Ford monster truck called Wizard that will let you "give rides all day, crush cars all night." Or four pawnshops--plus a half interest in three check-advance businesses--spread across western Kentucky. Where would you start to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: eBay's Bid to Conquer All | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...next harder level with more colors and symbols. The higher you go, the harder it gets--and the more exalted the rank you achieve when at last you lose. Not to brag, but I have got as high as Alchemist third degree, which is one rank above Grand Wizard. And two above my wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hooked Again | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...Eminem's new CD, The Marshall Mathers LP (that being the artist's real name), was lording over the pop charts. The disc, loaded with violent and misogynistic imagery, proved irresistible to millions of teenage boys. While some puritanical teachers and parents tried to demonize Harry--he is a wizard, after all--there was a far more blatant dark side to Eminem. In midsummer his estranged wife Kim, who had been vilified in one of her husband's songs and in the KIM: ROT IN PIECES tattoo that he wore on his torso, attempted suicide. The couple subsequently filed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year's Arts | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

...much as Ron loves his father [a wizard who is unusually curious about the nonmagic world], that can also be an awkward thing for a child, to have a particularly unconventional parent. It's plausible that these three kids would get on so well together because they are all to some extent oddities in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Is an Old Soul | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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