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| | TIME Asia Magazine: Hitting the Big Time -- Oct. 25, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | When Tony Jaa's film producer met him for the first time, she thought he was "ugly" and "couldn't act." His image consultant now says Jaa is "uncool" and is urging him to get a new haircut. |
 | | Jaa hurtles down the runway, launches himself like a missile, flips in midair and brings his right foot crashing down on the cushion. |
 | | Jaa, whose real name is Phanom Yeeram, grew up in Thailand's rural northeast, a region most notable for its poverty and, in the early 1980s, the occasional mortar round fired across the Cambodian border by the Khmer Rouge. |
| time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501041025-725168,00.html (874 words) |
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