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JACKIE CHAN, ANDY LAU TO CARRY OLYMPIC TORCH

April 01, 2008

Jackie to play a key role

Hong Kong (ANTARA News) - Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan and heartthrob Andy Lau will carry the Olympic torch during the city's leg of the relay early next month, a report said Tuesday. Hollywood hero Chan, star of the Rush Hour franchise, will play a "key role" in the southern Chinese territory's part of the torch tour, The Standard newspaper reported, citing an unnamed source. Lau, one of Asia's most recognisable faces who has won scores of awards for singing and acting over the past two decades, will also take the torch after it begins its leg on May 2, the paper said. The city's Chief Executive Donald Tsang is to be the first person to carry the flame, the report said. The torch arrived in Beijing on Monday for an elaborate ...

CHAN ON A MISSION

August 20, 2007

Hollwood Star Stunts Inactivity

By MONIQUE SAVIN Asia's ambassador of fitness, Jackie Chan, is winning the fight to make exercise fun for all ages and abilities. Through his movies (the latest is Rush Hour 3), Chan proves the benefits of exercise. Chan established a new martial arts genre by performing his own trademark death-defying, energetic stunt work. His style mixed traditional northern Shaolin kung fu and acrobatics with comedic gestures inspired by silent film heroes Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Wall vaulting, handstand push-ups, back-bending flips, full splits, leg sweeps, high kicks and one-legged toe presses combined with the plight of the everyday man made him a huge action star in Asia years before being introduced to North American ...

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