Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian stallion is back with his South Philly rabbit punches. In Rocky II-Redemption, our hero, played once again by Sylvester Stallone, challenges Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), the boxer who beat him in Part 1, to a rematch. Preparing to film the final fight scenes at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, Sly, as his friends call him, worked out so long and hard that he had to be given oxygen and vitamin B-12 shots between takes. "Every muscle feels like it's been torn from the bone," grunted Stallone. "Yesterday I thought for the first time...
...messianic leftist author (Ten Days That Shook the World). Then Beatty decided to make a simpler movie first. "I thought I better do a nice yarn with a strong narrative," he says, "and Heaven Can Wait is all plot." Since the hero of Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a boxer, Beatty considered the film a good vehicle for Muhammad Ali, a friend whom he regards as a potential movie star. But Ali had a couple of fights on his schedule, and Beatty cast himself as the hero instead. "I couldn't see myself as a boxer," he says...
...Talese was an obscure metropolitan reporter for the New York Times in the late 1950s when he sold his first freelance magazine article, a 3,000-word profile of Boxer José Torres, to a men's adventure magazine called Argosy. His fee: $500. Talese went on to bigger things (a total of $1 million from The Kingdom and the Power and Honor Thy Father, a $600,000 advance for his major book on sex, due in 1981), but Argosy did not. It's stated top payment for an article, some 20 years later, was still...
There will always be debate as to whether Muhammad Ali [Feb. 27] is the best boxer ever, but there can be no, doubt that this boxer, poet and philosopher truly is, as he claims, "the Greatest...
...Zevon, the patented Eastwood brand of low-boil violence and poker-faced absurdity may seem as natural as a song. His father, a Russian immigrant, was a onetime boxer who made his living as a professional card player. When William Zevon wanted to marry Warren's mother, the impending union caused a family crisis that became, 18 years later, the subject of their only son's most autobiographical song. Mama Couldn 't Be Persuaded...