Action Hero Evolves into Kung Fu Star
It's been a long journey from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure to The Matrix. Along the way Keanu Reeves has done Shakespeare and Bertolucci, vampires and surfing. Now, it is the 22nd century, an eerie, mechanical world where machines keep their human slaves passive by literally plugging them into a virtual-reality universe that appears as the 20th centur ...
Author: Martha Burr
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For the past half-century, many names have been linked to Ed Parker, the legendary founder of American kenpo. World leaders, star athletes and Hollywood celebs have craved knowledge of his practical, effective fighting system. Even the King, Elvis Presley, was hooked. But few people were closer to Parker than Ron Chapél, who assisted him with his writings and for 12 years was éminence grise at the ...
Author: Loren Franck
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In The Deep End of the Ocean, Michelle Pfeiffer portrays a woman who is devastated when her 3-year-old son disappears while she’s distracted in a hotel lobby. Her anguish over the kidnapping is compounded by her husband’s recriminating words: “Children don’t get lost. People lose them!”
Whether a youngster is snatched from her bedroom at night or carried off while playing with a friend in f ...
Author: Sara Fogan
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Black Belt’s expert source for this article was Kumron Vaitayanon, a Thai national who began practicing his country’s brutal fighting art at the tender age of 8. When he was 13, he won a muay Thai tournament organized by his middle school, located some 45 minutes outside of Bangkok. That’s when he started training and competing seriously.
Vaitayanon, who prefers to be called “Master K,” fou ...
Author: Kumron Vaitayanon
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A lot has happened since Black Belt last checked in with san shou sensation Cung Le for the cover story of the January 2001 issue. The San Jose, California-based martial artist has opted out of the K-1, where he fought in a special bout under san shou rules in 2000 and had been scheduled to do so again. He has landed a number of lucrative endorsement deals with national companies, the latest of wh ...
Author: S.D. Seong
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