In spite of his past generosity toward his son, Chan expressed a determination to stick to his decision disinherit him upon his death. According to Chan, if his son was successful in capitalizing on the advantages he has enjoyed throughout his life, he would not need an inheritance. On the other hand, if his son failed to make a success of himself, the elder Chan stated that any money he inherited would be wasted.
So "duang" today!
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— Jackie Chan (@EyeOfJackieChan) March 3, 2015
The international action star and renowned martial artist says he is currently writing a stage adaptation of his best-selling memoir I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action, which will chronicle the lives of his parents, his early education at the Peking Opera School and his rise to stardom through music.Yes. By all means, yes.
Jackie Chan (!) threw out the first pitch ... I had no idea he was going to be there ... and I got a Jackie Face On A Stick. Drank tons of beer, ate sausages, and peanuts, and ice cream, then had more beer ... Tif reminds me I should also be bragging about how my girl bought me a new hat, one of the caps with Ted Williams's number 9 on the front. It's sweet.And I still wear it. As a matter of fact, I'm wearing it now.
Declaring that he is both "too old" and "really, really tired," 58-year-old actor Jackie Chan told reporters at Cannes that his new action film, Chinese Zodiac, will be his last ... Of course, Chan has made these sorts of pronouncements before in recent years, but this time he says he really means it ... stopping with all the kicking will allow audiences to see "the real Jackie Chan," the real Jackie Chan said, adding, "I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro"—a sentiment he expressed in the sense of his wanting to find more diverse roles, and in that, 10 years from now, Asia will be wondering aloud why the hell Jackie Chan agreed to be in this.Jackie is selling himself short. De Niro ought to try to be the Tribeca Jackie Chan.
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| Jackie Chan as Huan Xing |
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In honor of 'True Legend''s U.S. release this week, we asked Yuen to do something even more difficult than fighting a man while standing on a bamboo pole over a pit of fire: pick just five favorite fight scenes from his incredible thirty-plus year career. As you'll see, he cheated a little bit on the last one, but with so many remarkable sequences to his credit, how can you blame him?Fist of Legend is full of classic fight scenes; he could've done a list of just the fights in that one movie alone and it would've been nearly as good.
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If you were at an awards ceremony honoring your son, would you use the occasion to tell the media that you were willing all your money to charity so that your child would get nothing? That's what Jackie Chan did, when asked recently by reporters about his singer son Jaycee. 'If he is capable, he can make his own money,' he told Channel News Asia. 'If he is not, then he will just be wasting my money.'Well, I wonder how into coddling we'd all be if our parents had sent us to China Drama Academy for ten years of hard-ass training. Check out Painted Faces for a depiction of what Jackie, Sammo, and Yuen Biao endured -- although Jackie has said that Sammo let their schoolmaster off easy with an overly sympathetic portrayal.
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(Newser) – The New York City subway rider who helped disarm a knifeman accused of murdering four people and wounding several others says watching mixed martial arts fights on TV for 20 years likely saved his life. As slasher Maksim Gelman lunged at Joseph Lozito with a huge knife, Lozito used his leg to sweep his attacker off his feet. 'I guess you watch it for 20 years, you just pick up some things through osmosis,' Lozito, who suffered stab wounds to his head and hand, tells ABC News.So there remains the possibility that all the hours I've devoted to watching Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Tony Jaa, Bruce Lee, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Mark Dacascos and Donnie Yen movies may yet save my life. (In the event I'm attacked by movie bad guys. Pretty sure I've not logged nearly enough MMA time to have absorbed any practical martial arts.)
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