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Article: Jean-Claude Van Damme, criminal
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- February 6, 2009
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Jean-Claude Van Damme, criminal
The star, playing himself, is a suspect in JCVD
It's been 10 years since Jean-Claude Van Damme made a movie that got a the- atrical release in the United States, and you can see each one of those years in his face, which is slashed with worry lines. There was a time when Van Damme, "The Muscles from Brussels," was the Next Big Thing in international action-traction. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stal- lone were getting up there in years, and Van Damme seemed like a cuter version Of Der Ahnuld, with a French-Belgian accent that suggested lover-boy potential à la Mel Gib- son. Butit didn't work out that way. Thanks to bad movie choices, but also to his ...