CINEMA: EVERYBODY SAY YEOH!

A HONG KONG ACTION HEROINE AIMS TO BE HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST TOP FEMALE ASIAN STAR

Asia's top female action star is new in Los Angeles, but already the locals know her as the woman who matched Jackie Chan stunt for impossible stunt in Police Story III: Super Cop. And maybe they think that punishing her body for film art--by, say, leaping off the top of a runaway truck to land splat! on the hood of Chan's speeding convertible--is all Michelle Yeoh does. She recalls that on one of her first L.A. photo shoots, "The beautician told me, 'You know, for a stuntwoman you have gorgeous nails.' Well, thank you, but I'm an actress who just happens...

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