Word: alcatraz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were alone, I would not have managed to get back into the craft at all. Minutes later, safely tucked in, water pumped back in the bay, our whole group skims on toward the Golden Gate Bridge. I notice everything: boats of all sizes and shapes, Angel Island, Alcatraz, the skyline, the murmur of Steve's voice, my own breath...
...spend the day in San Francisco touring the area. A tragedy occurs as we pass Alcatraz on a ferry. One student leaps overboard wailing, "Nooo, no more Loker...
...ideology that, surprisingly, he doesn't even subscribe to. Gary Sinise, in one of his best performances, portrays the four-term Governor and three-time presidential candidate's Faustian descent from liberal to conservative rabble-rouser as a human tragedy. And director John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz) uses all his old tricks (handheld cameras, black-and-white scenes, jarringly quick cuts and time jumps) along with some newer ones (slipping Sinise, Forrest Gump-style, into real TV footage) to keep the history immediate...
...were aerobics classes and juice bars, there was Jack LaLanne. His California health spa (started in 1936) was the country's first, and on his TV program, which aired from 1952 until 1986, he was a buoyant evangelist for fitness. At 60 he swam, handcuffed, 1 1/2 miles from Alcatraz to San Francisco's shore, towing a rowboat filled with 1,000 lbs. of sand. He still maintains a rugged regimen; up at 5 every morning, he works out an hour with weights before swimming for another hour. "My conscience is terrific," he says. "If I missed a workout...
...tortured general (Ed Harris) and some renegade Marines seize Alcatraz, take 81 tourists hostage and threaten the launch of VX gas rockets across the bay to vaporize San Francisco. An FBI biochemist (Nicolas Cage) is dispatched to defuse the weapons; a wily hermit (Sean Connery), the only prisoner to escape Alcatraz and live, is to help Cage navigate the Rock's maze of passageways...