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...apolitical. The only blatant protest song is “Last to Die,” featuring the chorus “Whose blood will spill / Whose heart will break / Who’ll be the last to die for our mistake.” “Gypsy Biker,” “Livin’ in the Future,” and “Long Walk Home,” also contain allusions to politics and war but they’re much more subtle. The focus is clearly on the music rather than...
...crowd rushing in to claim their seats at the Ryerson Theatre are younger, quicker, louder than the typical Toronto International Film Festival audience. More tattoos, too. They're closer to rock-concert fans than to a biker gang, but they're ready to rumble. And cheer and stomp their feet for movie masters few other festival goers know about...
DIED. Florence Tullis, 70, former go-go dancer and biker mother of the severely disfigured Rocky Dennis, whose life was dramatized in the award-winning 1985 film Mask; of an infection following a motorcycle accident; in Montebello, Calif. As portrayed by Cher, Tullis dismissed predictions that Rocky--whose skull deformity grossly enlarged his face--would not live past age 7 and fought teachers who discouraged him from attending public school. Rocky died at 16, nine years before Tullis lost her elder son, Joshua, to AIDS. "You don't understand," she said to people who pitied her. "My kids lived every...
...more may follow. Some riders argue that as long as they don't hurt others, the risk is theirs to take. Others question the efficacy of helmets. Federal standards require that they withstand a crash at 13 m.p.h., and "who drives that slow?" asks Vince Consiglio of American Bikers Aiming Toward Education in Michigan. He says boots and vests are more vital. "If a biker's going down, he's first going to protect his head...
...been slated to be called either “Tribal Games” or “Last Man Standing,” is more of an “observational documentary” than a reality program, according to Griffith-Jones.The other two American participants are a professional BMX biker, Jason L. Bennett, and professional lightweight strongman, Brad Johnson. Being a strongman involves pulling buses, doing dead lifts with cars, and picking up stones, Johnson said. He added that when he and the other applicants first saw Rennell, they thought “he was a professional soccer player...