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THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Friday, March 1,1996
'Rumble' kicks Chan into American action
► REVIEW •
By Michael J. Harding
Staff Writer
By far, this is one of the coolest
movies I've seen all year.
Jackie Chan is back in his fifth
American movie and it is one of the
best action movies I've ever seen.
Chan is part Buster Keaton (does
his own amazing stunts), part Gene
Kelly (imaginative choreography),
and part Jim Carrey (odd sense of
humor).
Chan plays Keung. a Hong
Kong cop on vacation who comes
to see his uncle's (Bill Tung) wed¬
ding.
His uncle is selling his family
grocery store to a local business
woman, Elaine (Anita Mui), who
finds out a little too late that it
comes infested with a biker gang
who likes to rip off the place regu¬
larly.
Keung's efforts turn the situation
from bad to worse when the bikers
seek revenge on Keung.
One of the bikers finds dia¬
monds in a mob bust gone wrong
and the diamonds find their way to
Keung.
The mob decides to destroy the
store and the denizens inside, hop¬
ing it will force Keung to act in their
best interests.
He doesn't. Hard to follow?
Don't worry, it gets better.
Chan performs some of the
greatest stunts ever done by an ac¬
tor. Leaping onto a hovercraft (yes,
a hovercraft), a forty-foot balcony
jump (which he did in one take),
and something that could only be
described as "bottle baseball."
There is so much more, but I
don't want to ruin it for anybody
(the fight in the gang's hideout is
the best fight you will ever see, I
promise).
Even the final credits are great,
showing outtakes from stunts gone
wrong or right. These credits, by
themselves, are worth the price of
admission.
Chan broke his leg during the
production of this movie, as did the
director, Stanley Tong, and
Francoise Yip, who plays gang
member Nancy, i
Chan, being a true movie hero,
did some of his stunts with a cast
designed to look like the shoes he
wears in the movie.'He and Yip only
missed one day of shooting.
Like most action movies, dia¬
logue in "Rumble in the Bronx" is
a problem. It's not the strongest part
March 3-March 9,1996
California State University, Fresno
March 3, Sunday 7 P.M.. Satellite Student Union
Southeast Asian Cultural Night
An evening featuring performances from Hmong, Lao,
Cambodian, and Vietnamese communities
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March 4, Monday 12 noon Upstairs Cafeteria Room 200
Speaker: David Mas Masumoto
The noted author of Epitaph for a Peach will speak on
"Reading the Land, Asian Americans, and a Sense of
Place" and sign autographs.
March 4, Monday 7 P.M. Satellite Student Union
Hmong Cultural Night
N-r-^An evening of entertainment from the Hmong commu¬
nity.
March 5, Tuesday 7 PM. Satellite Student Union
Play: "Celestials" - —    -
March 6, Wednesday 7 PM. Satellite Student Union
Movie: "Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision"
March 8, Friday 7 P.M. Satellite Student Union
Filipino Cultural Night
March 9, Saturday 7 P.M. Satellite Student Union
Amerasia Festival Night
March 5
• LAURIE KILMARTIN •
CATHY SORBO • SABRINA MATTHEWS
FREE!
showtime-7:30p.m. carl's jr. cafe
of the movie. Some of the voices
are dubbed and some aren't, so
don't concentrate on looking at
their lips.
The costumes and the characters
look like they are rejects from the
early '80s. This is easy to overlook
because you must remember, Chan
has a crazy sense of humor.
The biker gang in the movie ride
motocross bikes because Harleys
aren't very maneuverable and New
York City now has mountains (be¬
cause the movie was mostly shot in
Vancouver). Once again, this is easy
to overlook.
When you walk out of the the¬
ater after seeing "Rumble," you will
understand why this man has re¬
written the action movie and gained
pop-icon status.
He infuses his movies with hu¬
mor and jaw-dropping action. He
has made a fan out of Sylvester
Stallone and the ubiquitous Quentin
Taranitino.
"Rumble in the Bronx" is jaw-
dropping, dizzying, fall-out-of-
your-chair good.
Team
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Reno, Nevada in order to advance.
The women's team is currently
ranked seventh in the nation. They
placed second in conference and
won three of seven tournaments.
"We had a strong finish and
should pass a few teams," Carlson
said.
Every February, college unions
across the country hold tourna¬
ments in bowling, billiards, table
tennis and chess.
The team is captained by liberal
studies major Dionne Lee, 26.
' Dionne won all the events in
bowling which qualified her for the
National Tournament," Carlson
said. "It's an all expense paid trip
to Atlanta [Georgia] in May to com¬
pete for the Individual title."
Despite her bowling success Lee
is looking towards a career as a
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"I want to teach kindergarden or
younger elementary [students],"
Lee said. r
In her bid to win the National
title, Lee will compete against 23
of the best women college bowlers.
This will be Lee's third trip to
the Individual's.
Tm excited. Yet I've been there
twice already," Lee said. "I won the
first year but I was bowling for San
Jose State at the time.The second
time was my first year bajfk here at
Fresno in '90, but I lost by a pin."
Lee's fellow team mates look to
her to lead the group.
"She is definitely a leader of the
team. I see her as the person that
holds the team together," said
Christine Sherburne, a graphic de¬
sign major. "We joke around and
call her 'mother'because she's one
of the oldest players on the team."
The bowling program receives
little funding from Fresno State.
"We do fund raisers during the
year. We always have a booth dur¬
ing Vintage Days selling
snowcones," Carlson said. "It's our
biggest money maker."
The team also raises funds by
cleaning up after concerts and
sporting events on campus.
In the past there has been dis¬
cussion about having the women's
bowling added to the university's
athletic program to help meet Title
IX requirements.
"There was a study in Decem¬
ber to see about adding the womens
program to the athletic program,"
Carlson said. "There were not
enough schools interested in doing
it and it was dropped."
Carlson said it would be nice to
have the women on full scholarship,
although it would not be fair to the
men.
Inter-collegiate sports offer op¬
portunities to college students who
do not possess the skills needed to .
play sports such as football, base¬
ball, softball, basketball or volley¬
ball at the National Colligete Ath¬
letic Association's division I level.
"The association Fresno State
belongs to has competitions in foot-
ball, table tennis and chess,"
Drummond said. "These are inter¬
collegiate sports."
Team member Janine Mastell
summed up the team setiment go¬
ing into the tournament by saying,
"We're gonna win it all!"
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