| Burlingame girls advance in tennis playoffs | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:12:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Burlingame High girls tennis team posted an upset with a 4-3 win over Hillsdale in a second-round Peninsula Athletic League team playoff Thursday. Burlingame (4-6) finished lower than Hillsdale (6-4) in the league standings, but the Knights were hampered by the loss of a couple of regulars. One bright spot for Hillsdale was Jasmine Nachtigall's 6-0, 6-0 win over Kelley Chan, who had defeated Nachtigall in the final dual meet of the season Tuesday. Justine Tantoco in second singles won 6-4, 6-4, and Lauren Wong in third singles earned a 4-6, 6-3, 10-5 win for Hillsdale. Burlingame clinched the meet when Lily Goodwill and Nicole Carmine took the second doubles 7-6 (5), 6-2. Blair Akers in fourth singles and the doubles teams of Vicky Stanell-Maggie McClain and Alessandra Daskalakis-Audrey Ha also won.... | |
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| | | 'Rob-B-Hood' testimony to Jackie Chan's amazing physical creativity | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:04:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | HONG KONG (AP) - Going into a Jackie Chan movie, audiences don't expect moody lighting or artistic camera angles. They don't expect a social crusade. They want a feast of Chan's signature action comedy, which has transcended mere stunts to become an art form. Chan delivers on that count successfully in his latest Chinese-language film "Rob-B-Hood,'' the story of three thieves who kidnap a baby for a crime boss and then have a change of heart. It's easy to take Chan's nimble moves and death-defying stunts for granted. What's so impressive about jumping off buildings and being able to twist your body like a pretzel? It's sheer guts and physical exertion, skeptics may say. Now consider the fact that Chan is still going at it four decades into his acting career.... | |
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| | | Jackie Chan wants to be Robert De Niro | | Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:05:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | London, Sept 9(ANI): Film star Jackie Chan, who is famed for doing all his own stunts, has revealed that he is fed up of playing the same roles and wants people to take him as seriously as actor Robert De Niro. Speaking at the Venice Film Festival, the Hong Kong star compared how he was greeted by fans gesticulating and shouting wildly, whereas he imagined De Niro commanded something closer to subdued awe. "When they see me, 'Ah, ah Jackie Chan!'" the actor told a news conference after the press screening of Rob-B-Hood. I say, why does nobody say 'Robert De Niro!'," Daily Mail quoted him as saying. "So I want to change, so that some day they say 'Wow, Jackie Chan' and not move again and again. So I want a change," he added. Chan is in Venice to promote his new comedy 'Rob-B-Hood', in which he plays a gambler who kidnaps the infant grandson of a tycoon and is left holding the baby.... | |
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| | | Jackie Chan's rendezvous with Simi Garewal on Sept 3 | | Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 9:07:22 AM by Blog57 Team | | Mumbai, Sept 1. (UNI): It's a rare treat for all Jackie Chan fans as they will get an opportunity to get an insight into the life of the man known as Hong Kong's 'one-man film industry', in a rendezvous with Simi Garewal, which will be telecast on September three on Star World at 2130 hrs. Chan, whose real name is Chan Kong-Sang, has made over a 100 movies beginning his career from a stuntman. A press release issued here said Simi Garewal travelled to Hong Kong to interview the international martial-arts superstar. According to Simi Garewal, "Jackie was wonderful. He didn't hide anything, didn't evade any question. He wasn't 'image-conscious', in fact he spoke about aspects even more than I could have asked for. He revealed things that aren't even there in his biography! Graciously, he was the one who knelt and thanked me!" In this in-hour special episode, Jackie speaks about his childhood, the fact that he was born in poverty and his immigrant parents almost sold him at birth to a British doctor as they couldn't afford the hospital bill.... | |
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| | | JACKSON LANDS LI/CHAN FILM | | Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 6:25:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | LORD OF THE RINGS director PETER JACKSON is in talks to bring martial arts movie heroes JACKIE CHAN and JET LI together on the big screen. The movie-maker has been signed to direct an untitled new film, which would star Li as the villain, and Chan as the hero, according to movie website MonkeyPeaches.com. Chan recently spoke about the ambitious, high-action film, stating it "will be more American-style. It will be more suited to foreign audiences than Chinese audiences". 16/08/2006 19:53 .... | |
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| | | Jackie Chan s kung-fu kickin coffee | | Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 7:09:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | He was hours late and almost didn't make it all because of a typhoon that forced him to charter his own plane and secure landing rights at the last minute. "I risked my life as we were bouncing and bouncing for almost two hours," the man said in his thick Cantonese accent. But not even a storm could keep him from coming to Manila. He, after all, has beaten the Rush Hour, gone Around the World in 80 Days and even survived a Rumble in the Bronx. And despite recent reports of alleged boorish and insulting behavior onstage at another fellow's concert in Taiwan from this Drunken Master, the internationally renowned comedian and martial arts movie star arrived in the country sober and smiling. The crooner with several albums to his name even gave pop star Gary Valenciano a run for his money and sang an Elvis Presley tune a cappella and charmed his way through throngs of anxious journalists.... | |
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| | | Simi's 'Rendezvous' with Jackie Chan | | Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 1:02:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | MUMBAI: Simi Garewal is off to Hong Kong to interview Jackie Chan for her popular talk show 'Rendezvous With Simi Garewal'. It would be the Hong Kong star's first such television appearance with an Indian host. "But I have repeatedly gone and got international guests on their home turf," said Simi who has conducted interviews abroad with Rupert Murdoch, Imran Khan and most recently steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal on her show. Simi is looking forward to interviewing Jackie. "He is extremely popular in India. Our endeavour on 'Rendezvous...' is to always bring on guests who are a popular enigma in this part of the world." "What's the point of talking to people who have come on every channel and have said everything about themselves? "For this season of 'Rendezvous' I have lined up Esha and her sister Aahana Deol, Aishwarya Rai, Lara Dutta and of course Jackie.... | |
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| | | Simi set to grill Jackie Chan on 'Rendezvous' | | Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 7:04:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | Simi Garewal is off to Hong Kong to interview Jackie Chan for her popular talk show "Rendezvous With Simi Garewal". It would be the Hong Kong star's first such television appearance with an Indian host. "But I have repeatedly gone and got international guests on their home turf," said Simi who has conducted interviews abroad with Rupert Murdoch, Imran Khan and most recently steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal on her show. Simi is looking forward to interviewing Jackie. "He is extremely popular in India. Our endeavour on 'Rendezvous...' is to always bring on guests who are a popular enigma in this part of the world. "What's the point of talking to people who have come on every channel and have said everything about themselves? "For this season of 'Rendezvous' I have lined up Esha and her sister Aahana Deol, Aishwarya Rai, Lara Dutta and of course Jackie.... | |
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| | | Action hero Jackie Chan in charity role | | Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 5:14:21 AM by Blog57 Team | | HONG KONG: JACKIE CHAN announced yesterday he has bequeathed half of his fortune to charity, saying he looks up to philanthropists like WARREN BUFFETT and BILL GATES. The exact amount involved, however, wasn't clear, because Chan declined to reveal his net worth. Chan revealed the terms of his will when asked about tycoon Warren Buffett's recent $37 billion (BD14bn) donation at a Press conference on a tiger conservation campaign. Buffett said he'd give away the bulk of his stock holdings in the company he runs, Berkshire Hathawa, with five-sixths of the shares earmarked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the fund set up by the Microsoft chairman and his wife. "I admire the efforts by Buffett and Gates to help those in need a lot," Chan said.... | |
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| | | In Tomorrow's Paper | | Posted Sunday, July 02, 2006 7:06:06 AM by Blog57 Team | | HONG KONG -- Jackie Chan announced yesterday he has bequeathed half of his fortune to charity, saying he looks up to philanthropists like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Chan disclosed the terms of his will when asked about tycoon Warren Buffett's recent $37 billion-US donation at a news conference on a tiger conservation campaign. Buffett said he'd give away the bulk of his stock holdings in the company he runs, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., with five-sixths of the shares earmarked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the fund set up by the Microsoft chairman and his wife. "I admire the efforts by Buffett and Gates to help those in need a lot," Chan said. "Like Buffett and Gates, I want to help people, but I don't have as much money as they do." The 52-year-old action star said the portion of his fortune reserved for charity would go to his own Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation, which was launched in 1988 to help needy Hong Kong youngsters but has since branched out into disaster relief, medical donations and supporting the performing arts.... | |
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