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...that she's going to hide. Vonn knows she's a hot ticket, and is ready to cash in. "I'm excited about it," Vonn says of her commercial prospects. Red Bull, Under Armour and Vail Resorts are among her current backers. "I just hope, with this success, I can build more great relationships, and yeah, we'll see how it goes. I'm anticipating a lot of fun things to come...
...career ordeal. Now it's Jackie Chan's turn, in the PG-rated The Spy Next Door. At 55, he is well past his prime as the Hong Kong martial-arts sensation who wowed the world by doing all his own stunts in the Project A, Police Story, Armour of God and Drunken Master franchises, which he parlayed into success in the West with the Rush Hour series. Lately, Chan has settled into a more modest double life: making broad action comedies on both sides of the Pacific. This latest American effort is a deplorable, but also forgettable and forgivable...
...aren't following Bob's lead by trying to distract and sedate our kids at the movie house. For three decades, Chan's footwork and brazenly masochistic showmanship were the foundation for sequences never topped in action-film history. Some of them - the shot in The Armour of God II: Operation Condor, for example, where Jackie drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane - are shown here in clips, to establish Bob's espionage expertise. Other acrobatics, like the amazing descent down a four-story shopping...
...famous "Highland Mary" - died while giving birth to his child. Not that he had much time to mourn; the previous year, he impregnated his family's servant girl and brought shame to her family by not marrying her. He then took up with a young woman named Jean Armour, but she became pregnant too. Burns tried to marry Armour, but her father wouldn't have it. Then the poems were published, Burns became famous, and what do you know, suddenly the marriage offer seemed more appealing. In 1788, after a few other flings with a few other women...
...then there were the daily frustrations of Armour's job: training Afghan police officers. Almost all the recruits were illiterate. "They've had no experience at learning," Armour said. "You sit them in a room and try to teach them about police procedures - they start gabbing and knocking about. You talk to them about the rights of women, and they just laugh." A week earlier, five Afghan police officers trained by Armour were murdered in their beds while defending a nearby checkpoint - possibly by other police officers. Their weapons and ammunition were stolen. "We're not sure of the motivation...