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Big Screen
Cannes You Dig It? 2009 Festival Winners: An Austrian-tatious Party
5:15AM Foster Kamer | The Twitteratti are pecking away the wins at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival that don’t involve Jean Claude Van Damme getting freak-ay with some fan(nes). Michael Moore, pictured, wasn’t there. This year’s winners: More »
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Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Liver Will See You in Hell
7:48AM Ryan Tate | Bulgarian publication Стандарт — and who doesn’t trust Стандарт? — ran this picture of Jean-Claude Van Damme at a “night party” in Sofia. Funny. A drunk Van Damme was once a terrifying prospect: More »
Let’s All Attempt to Decipher Jean-Claude Van Damme!
4:40AM Kyle Buchanan | Jean-Claude Van Damme has always expressed himself by using the, how you say, the kicking? The kicking and the doing the splits? But now that he has the weirdly thoughtful meta-meditation JCVD in the offing, the Muscles from Brussels has been making the American press rounds, attempting to beat the English language into submission like it was Dolph Lundgren’s high-cheekboned, Aryan face. We’ve already enjoyed the actor’s “fruit-opening” secret to acting, but let’s all marinate in his latest, greatest interview (with BlackBook) and attempt to figure out just what the hell he’s saying. Join us, won’t you? More »
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Comeback Secret: ‘I Opened the Fruit’
6:05AM STV | We weren’t kidding when we presaged a renaissance for Jean-Claude Van Damme, whose Cannes hit JCVD — an indie satire featuring the action star as a forlorn, tormented version of his once ass-kicking self — is drawing high praise ahead of its limited US release this weekend. Eighty percent of critics at Rotten Tomatoes are behind it, but frankly, as they’re part of the reason Van Damme was ever a punchline in the first place: To hell with them. A new pair of interviews with the Phoenix of Belgium sums up all you need to know about a comeback that makes Mickey Rourke’s look puny in comparison.
