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...look at all like the kind of fellow who can command $25 million a movie, his record-breaking salary for The Patriot. He is wearing the usual--jeans and an untucked short-sleeve patterned shirt that is, frankly, a little loud--and he is fumbling through the tattered leather backpack he always carries, looking desperately for a light. Gibson smokes. He has tried hypnotists and nicotine gum and such, but quitting remains perhaps the one thing Mel Gibson cannot do. At 44 he has won two Oscars (as director and producer of the 1995 Braveheart). He has been married...
...described how, to get inside the head of a fugitive character in his most recent novel, he traveled cross-country for a week-and-a-half with $30,000 in cash in his backpack...
BUILDING A BETTER BACKPACK INVENTORS: ED KOIS, DAVID GILMOUR, SCOTT CUMMINGS A few years ago, David Gilmour, 60, a patient with back problems, came to the office of physiatrist Ed Kois and told him he wanted to climb a mountain. Kois told Gilmour he was crazy, but Kois, Gilmour and Cummings started working on the Back Balancer, a 10-in.-wide oval-shaped pad that, when retrofitted to a normal backpack, acts as a spine-supporting brace. The pad pulls on the abdomen, creating a hydraulic lift to save wear on back muscles. Kois' patient raved about the device...
...most conventional bicycles in a few seconds, converting them to electric models. Of his newer gadgets he seems most proud of Technalegs, a strap-on contraption with little, jointed, lockable, telescoping "intelligent canes" that can support as much as three-quarters of the weight of a hiker and his backpack. "You can carry your wife on your back all day without getting tired," he jokes...
...look at all like the kind of fellow who can command $25 million a movie, his record-breaking salary for "The Patriot." He is wearing the usual - jeans and an untucked short-sleeve patterned shirt that is, frankly, a little loud - and he is fumbling through the tattered leather backpack he always carries, looking desperately for a light. Gibson smokes. He has tried hypnotists and nicotine gum and such, but quitting remains perhaps the one thing Mel Gibson cannot do. At 44 he has won two Oscars (as director and producer of the 1995 "Braveheart"). He has been married...