Word: boxers
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...crowd of 800 at London's York Hall - the spiritual home of British boxing - held its breath. But Wade returned with a flurry of punches, and finished with his pride intact. Despite his tough-guy nickname, Wade, a 37-year-old father of two, is not a professional boxer - he's a lawyer and writer. "I cannot overemphasize how terrifying the whole thing was," says Wade. "But it's an adrenaline boost you don't get every day." In the past three years, some 1,200 lawyers, bankers, judges and other suits - mostly thirty- and fortysomething men - have joined London...
...trophies they receive for fighting. Marketing manager Richard Clarke, 32, enjoyed the attention his black eye brought at an office meeting. "When I explained, the women looked disgusted," he says. "But all the men were wishing they were able to do the same thing." Parisio, the female boxer, found her first black eye embarrassing only when she walked down the street with her boyfriend. She says: "I think people thought he gave...
Clearly, the pug boxer is never far from Stallone. His home is festooned with Rocky arcana, including paintings by the actor. There's also a photo, taken the day Baghdad fell, of a young Iraqi hoisting a U.S. flag with Rocky emblazoned on it. The image pleases and tickles the star: "You know the movie wasn't playing in Iraq. Why would someone smuggle into the country a character that represents the American Dream? Did he have it under his bed thinking, I can't wait to be liberated! It's the first thing I'm pulling...
...dogs came from my wife Robyn. She's Australian. And Australia, as lovingly recounted in Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country, has the craziest, wildest, deadliest, meanest animals on the planet. In a place where every spider and squid can take you down faster than a sucker-punched boxer, you cherish niceness in the animal kingdom. And they don't come nicer than dogs...
DIED. HUME CRONYN, 91, wiry, perfectionist actor who infused his ordinary, often cranky characters with bubbling intensity; of prostate cancer; in Fairfield, Conn. An amateur boxer in his native Canada, he first won acclaim for his vivid portrayals in such films as The Postman Always Rings Twice (as a Machiavellian lawyer) and Brute Force (as a sadistic prison guard). He often appeared with his wife of 52 years, Jessica Tandy, who died in 1994. Their teamwork spanned nearly half a century--in films from The Seventh Cross in 1944 (as a couple aiding an escapee from the Nazis...