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Article: Van Damme Gets a Kick Out of Movies Van Damme's Acting Is Action-Packed
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 19, 1993 ;     600 words ......starring role in "Hard Target," scheduled...this Friday, Van Damme sports a downtrodden...over his head," Van Damme says. "He's...undertones, "Hard Target" is a return...Run." With "Hard Target," however, Van Damme promises "more...

Article: `Hard Target': Van Damme Shame
The Washington Post;  August 20, 1993 ;     640 words ......American debut, "Hard Target," is that it...Jean- Claude Van Damme and it's pretty...a jeans-clad Van Damme turns "Hard Target" into a Levi...expect from Van Damme. Action fans...let Woo alone. Hard Target, at area theaters...

Article: VAN DAMME HITS BULLSEYE IN 'HARD TARGET'
Post-Tribune (IN);  August 20, 1993 ;     558 words ...PHOTO - 2 Van Damme in 'Hard Target.' Chance (Jean-Claude Van Damme) kicks his way out of another jam in 'Hard Target.' THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION...REVIEW The director of "Hard Target" doesn't try to Woo you...teamed up with Jean-Claude Van Damme, ...

Article: 'HARD TARGET' DESIGNED FOR TALENTS OF VAN DAMME.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  August 20, 1993 ;     380 words ......turns up again in Hard Target, designed for the...of Jean-Claude Van Damme. The stakes are...Chance Boudreaux (Van Damme), a rootless kick-box...Carmine Mitchell). Hard Target marks the first...might be said of Hard Target. The Universal...by Jean-Claude ...

Article: JEAN-CALUDE VAN DAMME for filmdom's universal soldier, it's been a career of no retreat, no surrender
The Boston Globe;  July 12, 1992 ;     700+ words ...`I'm the best!" cried Jean-Claude Van Damme, rubbing his red-gloved hands together...called "No Retreat, No Surrender," and Van Damme played the villain -- an Evil Empire...low-rent movie that's still around on video. Van Damme maimed the father of the teen-meat hero...

Article: Van Damme-aged Action star pulls off his riskiest stunt: playing himself in an unflattering light.(Time Out!)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  November 13, 2008 ;     583 words ......letter from action superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme after he read a review in which I praised...star at the time the effusively boyish Van Damme looked positively Shakespearean. Now, in his strange, challenging new movie JCVD, Van Damme goes Shakespearean for real with a heart-rippi...

Article: Van Damme liked playing himself
The Boston Globe;  November 14, 2008 ;     482 words ......Universal soldier. Martial arts master. Jean- Claude Van Damme has played them all - over and over again, in...action-packed career. In his latest role, as Jean-Claude Van Damme in "JCVD," Van Damme portrays a character much closer to his fists...

Article: Van Damme gets his kicks from acting now, not karate
Chicago Sun-Times;  April 14, 1989 ;     700+ words ......differently for Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme, he would be in Chicago running a karate...enough money to finance the operation, so Van Damme headed for Hollywood to pursue his childhood...everything happens for a reason," said Van Damme, 28. "At the time when the karate ...

Article: VAN DAMME SHOWS SURPRISING REBIRTH IN 'JCVD'.(77 SQUARE)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  February 6, 2009 ;     520 words ......cheesy action movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, with the Belgian martial-arts star kicking...around the eighth or ninth takedown, Van Damme starts looking visibly tired, his faked...be watching the surprising rebirth of Van Damme. Because in its best moments, JVCD is...

Article: Jean-Claude Van Damme has graduated from 'Bloodsport' to 'Timecop'. (Originated from Orange County Register)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 15, 1994 ;     700+ words ...When you look at Jean-Claude Van Damme's muscular body and see how he uses it...the real-life jungle that is Hollywood, Van Damme says he often feels completely unarmed...tland'' and ``2010.'' This is the movie that Van Damme says he has waited his 11-film career...

Article: THE ACTION HERO WHO LOVES BEING VAN DAMME IN "TIMECOP," THE STAR SAYS, "THERE IS A REAL STORY FOR ONCE, AND A REAL BUDGET . . . I AM ABLE TO ACT A LITTLE."
The Boston Globe;  September 11, 1994 ;     700+ words ...NEW YORK -- Jean-Claude Van Damme comes into the room wearing Italian...rougher parts of town, but Jean-Claude Van Damme doesn't have to worry, despite those...poet. The bad guys in Jean-Claude Van Damme movies might underestimate him; that...

Article: Van Damme Kicks Image of a Loser
Chicago Sun-Times;  July 17, 1992 ;     700+ words ...LOS ANGELES Jean-Claude Van Damme is not used to playing the loser...the few actors on Earth that make Van Damme look shrimpy, Scott always seems...action film with two big action guys," Van Damme said in the accented English that...

Article: 'Sudden Death' star Jean-Claude Van Damme isn't so tough -- just ask him.(Originated from Orange County Register)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Hills _ but whatever it was, Jean-Claude Van Damme looked small. And bookish. And pretty...in their midst and started joking with Van Damme's breakfast guest. When they realized...speak-softly-and-carry-no-stick manner, Van Damme resembles Clark Kent more than he does...

Article: Van Damme stays `sensitive' as tough guy in movies
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 18, 1991 ;     548 words ......Brussels," karate master Jean-Claude Van Damme is an action-movie hero with a soft side...sensitive person in an envelope of muscles." Van Damme said the actors he especially admires...more than 1,400 U.S. movie theaters. Van Damme said he prefers Tom Cruise to Chuck Norris...