The Reform Package debate has seen the return of key political figure and former Chief Secretary Anson Chan, raising speculations of a possible run up for the 2007 Chief Executive election, though she dismissed having a personal interest in standing for the next election.

Phil Hellmuth has won the most bracelets with 12 followed by Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan with ten bracelets each.

The Special Olympics movement has attracted the support of a number of international sportsmen and other celebrities, including Rafer Johnson, Bono, Joe Jonas, Derek Poundstone, Padraig Harrington, Jackie Chan, Zhang Ziyi, Yao Ming, Nadia Comaneci, Bart Conner, Vanessa Williams, Mary Alice Pearce DeVane, Colin Farrell and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In the 1983 martial arts film Project A, Jackie Chan also played an homage to Lloyd ( whom he has frequently cited as an influence on his work ) by falling from a clock tower.

He has been a fight choreographer for, amongst others, Jackie Chan, King Hu, and John Woo.

Ma Hon Keung ( Jackie Chan ), a Hong Kong cop comes to New York to attend the wedding of his Uncle Bill ( Bill Tung ) who introduces his new wife to him down at his supermarket, which he owns and has sold to Elaine ( Anita Mui ).

The avocado tree also has a long history of cultivation in Central and South America ; a water jar shaped like an avocado, dating to AD 900, was discovered in the pre-Incan city of Chan Chan.

Mitsubishi has had a 30 year long association with actor Jackie Chan, who has used their vehicles almost exclusively in his movies throughout his career.

In 1989, the 24-year-old Hellmuth became the youngest player to win the Main Event of the WSOP by defeating the two-time defending champion Johnny Chan in heads up play ; his record has since been broken twice, by Peter Eastgate in 2008 and Joe Cada in 2009.

" Anita Chan also posits that China's household registration and temporary residence permit system has created a situation analogous to the passbook system in South Africa which was designed to regulate the supply of cheap labor.

Anita Chan furthers that China's household registration and temporary residence permit system has created a situation analogous to the passbook system in apartheid South Africa, which were designed to regulate the supply of cheap labor.

During this time, Channing Carson took his stepfather's surname ; he publishes his cartoons as Chan Lowe and has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his work.

* Priscilla Chan has created a Cantonese version of " Native Dance " called " 放鬆三分鐘 ".

A great deal of research has been devoted to schemes for evaluating this re-indexing efficiently, ideally in-place, while minimizing the number of costly modulo ( remainder ) operations ( Chan, 1991, and references ).

Brunson was the first player to earn $ 1 million in poker tournaments and has won ten World Series of Poker bracelets throughout his career, tied with Johnny Chan for second all-time, two behind Phil Hellmuth's twelve.

A director by the name of Alan Smithee has been allowed to direct Trio, a big-budget action film starring Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jackie Chan.

Chan married Stella, Lady Chan in 1966 and has four children: Vanessa Andrea, Byron James, Mark Gavin, and Toea Julius.

His son Byron Chan has been Member of Parliament for Namatanai Open electorate, covering the south of New Ireland, since 2002.

More recently, Odier founded the " Tantra / Chan centre " in Paris ( confirmed by his official website as operating from 1995 to 2000 ), and he has " taught courses on the spiritual traditions of the Far East at the University of California "— which his website also confirms, noting his " workshops and seminars throughout the world.

She has had only one prior romance — an 11-year relationship with businessman Anthony Chan.

In reality, Chan has become an undercover agent reporting directly only to Wong and Yip.

This gradual cultivation is described by contemporary Chan Master Sheng Yen as follows:

They are described by four parallel Chinese quotations: " Xi Shi sinks fish ; Wang Zhaojun drops birds ; Diao Chan eclipses the moon ; Yang Guifei shames flowers.

In an interview in 2008, Jackie Chan described the experience:

This gradual cultivation is also described by Chan Master Sheng Yen:

Wei-Yin Chen, Tom Seaver, Sandy Koufax, Dwight Gooden and Chan Ho Park were often described as the paramount pitchers with this kind of ball action.

The album was recorded in just six days and contained fourteen tracks ; opening with " Chan Chan " written by Compay Segundo, a four chord son that was to become what Cooder described as " the Buena Vista's calling card "; and ending with a rendition of " La Bayamesa ", a traditional Cuban patriotic song ( not to be confused with the Cuban national anthem of the same name ).

As with the clock tower stunt from Project A ( 1983 ), Chan described his fear at the thought of performing the stunt.

One is Late, a play described as a discourse on life and love written by Marcia Johnson and directed by Marjorie Chan.

In 1989, Jackie Chan adapted the story yet again for the Hong Kong action film Miracles, adding several of his trademark stunt sequences.

These included the modern martial arts action movies, featuring physical acrobatics and dangerous stunt work, of Jackie Chan and his stunt team as well as Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao ; the wire fu and wuxia films of Tsui Hark, Yuen Woo-Ping, Jet Li and Donnie Yen ; the gun fu, heroic bloodshed and Triad films of John Woo, Ringo Lam and Chow Yun-Fat ; and the girls with guns films of Moon Lee and Michelle Yeoh.

During filming, Chan injured his right leg while performing a stunt.

* Project AA stunt featured Jackie Chan hanging off a real clock tower and falling through three ripped canopies used to break his fall before hitting the ground.

Scenes include Chan hanging on to a double-decker bus window by an umbrella handle, as well as a mall fight scene at the end featuring many stunt team members performing tumbles, falls and flips through various objects including glass window displays, stairs, escalators, etc.

** Jackie Chan ( born 1954 ), Chinese actor, action choreographer, film director, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer

Some individuals, such as Buster Keaton, Harry Houdini, Jackie Chan, Akshay Kumar, Tony Jaa, and Jayan act as both stunt performers and daredevils at various parts of their career.

Roger Ebert praised both Jackie Chan, for his entertaining action sequences without the use of stunt doubles, and Chris Tucker, for his comical acts in the film, and how they formed an effective comic duo.

Apart from acting, Kumar worked as a stunt actor ; he often performed many dangerous stunts in his films, which earned him a reputation as the " Indian Jackie Chan ".

Chan is also a, action choreographer, filmmaker, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer.

One stunt in particular involved Chan hanging and falling from the hand of a clock tower some 60 feet high, tearing through awning canopies before hitting the ground head-first.

Chan came the closest he has ever been to death in this film during a relatively routine stunt ; he leaped onto a tree from a ledge, but the branch he grabbed snapped, sending Chan plummeting and cracking his skull.

Along with Tu Wi Ho, Chan was also the film's stunt co-ordinator.

During a stunt in this last sequence, in which Chan slides down a pole from several stories up, the lights near the pole had heated it considerably, resulting in Chan suffering second-degree burns, particularly to his hands, as well as a back injury and dislocation of his pelvis upon landing.

In an interview with Chan, he discusses the stunt of sliding down the chandelier.

Stuntman Blackie Ko doubled for Chan during a motorcycle stunt in which his character drives through glass towards a hitman.

It wasn't until Rumble in the Bronx ( 1995 ) that Chan was allowed to use more of his preferred action style, in which he works together with his stunt team and the actors ( and actresses ) involved in the films he's involved in.

The player controls Jackie Chan, the well-known martial arts stunt master, and brawls against many enemies during his quest to save his sister.

Jackie Chan, who started his movie career as an extra and stunt artist in some of Bruce Lee ’ s movies, was also given roles where he was promoted as the next Bruce Lee, such as New Fist of Fury ( 1976 ).