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Jackie Chan, not just a martial arts movie star legend, he's co-owner of a LMP2 Porsche race car

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The #38 Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca led the race overall with just 70 minutes to go, when the recovering works Porsche 919 Hybrid finally overhauled it for outright honours. But Chan's car – crewed by Ho-Pin Tung, Oliver Jarvis and Thomas Laurent – still claimed class honours, and second place outright of the 2017 Le Mans this past June https://www.motorsport.com/lemans/news/jackie-chan-le-mans-oscar-920284/ but here's something else it did... it beat all the LMP1 cars, as they broke, crashed, or had other problems. So, really, aren't the LMP1 and LMP2 classes no longer relevant? When the lead, stunningly, went to the No. 38 ­Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca., an LMP2 car using, like almost all the 23 P2 entries, a spec Oreca chassis, and a spec Gibson 4.2-liter V8.  Fortunately for the WEC, and for Porsche, the No. 2 Porsche LMP1 team rallied back and won, only a single lap ahead of Chan’s entry.  So what if an LMP2 car had won? And wins again? The WEC has a rule, no factory in

Loretta Lynn, what an amazing person

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the most awarded female country recording artist and the only female ACM Artist of the Decade, she taught herself to play a $17 guitar, and in by age 34 began making number one hits, 16 in all. Country music radio stations often refused to play her music, banning nine of her songs, but Lynn pushed on to become one of country music's legendary artists. She and contemporaries like Tammy Wynette provided a template for female artists in country music to follow. Her best-selling 1976 autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, was made into an Academy Award–winning film of the same title in 1980, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones. Lynn is the most awarded woman in country music (including 4 grammys and 7 AMAs) , has recorded 70 albums, including 54 studio albums, 15 compilation albums, one tribute album to Patsy Cline, and to date Lynn had been inducted into more music Halls Of Fame than any other female recording artist. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/loretta-lynn-asks-whos-gon

Lauren Hutton, on how she got into movies...

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Lauren Hutton was a 20-year-old nightclub waitress when she had her chance encounter at a red light. Riding to work on her clunky Vespa, she heard the roar of a motorcycle that pulled alongside her at a stoplight. The guy astride a customized Indian Motorcycle bike, Steve McQueen, exchanged glances with her. “Hey, sweetheart!” he yelled. “You want to see how a movie is made?” Hutton nodded, flashing her gap-toothed grin, and followed him to the set of The Cincinnati Kid. http://zhumoristenouveau.eklablog.com/zhumeurs-d-octobre-hommage-a-lauren-hutton-a127137026 https://www.forbes.com/2004/06/23/cz_kb_0623hutton.html  it's a good article on what celebs go through to stay in the money https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2007/1224/086.html

well, this is cool

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My dad served as police officer in the 70's-80's and when I told him recently that I like Tom Waits, he told me this little story: My dad was called to go down to a massage parlor because there was some guy waving a knife. It was out of his district so they called another guy on it. That guy was killed when the loony took the gun out of his holster and shot him. Three days later was the funeral, thousands of radio cars, the mayor, all that. My dad was driving by the Tropicana Hotel where Tom Waits lived and out on the porch, looking right at the radio cars, Tom Waits and Chuck E. (2) were singing "I Shot the Sheriff" (3) loud enough for all the cars to hear. My dad never forgot that... Years later: There's a dispute at a bar. Chuck E. and Tom Waits are there. My dad and two other guys are called to check it out. Chuck E. makes a move like he's going for a gun and my dad pulls out his piece. Tom Waits jumps on my dad and the two cops and my dad beat Tom Waits d