Word: boxers
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...Like a boxer past his prime, Lee Ho Dong can't resist coming out of his corner for a good brawl?even when no one is cheering for him anymore. The president of the Korean Power Plant Industry Union has spent the past two weeks huddled in an unheated tent pitched on the paving stones behind Seoul's Myeongdong Cathedral, the time-honored sanctuary of unionists and student rebels on the run. Lee and 20 other union members took refuge after police issued arrest warrants accusing them of launching illegal strikes to protest the government's plan to sell power...
...also tired. After making three movies in three years, he says, "I'd like to have a little break." He has two projects in development - Cinderella Man, the story of a Depression-era boxer, set to star Russell Crowe, and A Conspiracy of Paper, an adaptation of David Liss's murder mystery - but neither will begin shooting before autumn...
...Almost half an hour of the movie takes place in boxing rings. Mann, a famous perfectionist, has meticulously restaged the actual fights, and Smith goes toe to toe with real fighters. Smith says the knockdown of Foreman (boxer Charles Shufford) was the most "grueling" sequence: "We did it over five days. Michael wanted everything, the angle of the bend in my wrist and the angle of my ankle and toe, to be perfect...
DENIED. MIKE TYSON, 35, trouble-prone boxer; a license that would have allowed him to fight heavyweight champ Lennox Lewis in Las Vegas in April, following a prefight melee; by the Nevada State Athletic Commission; in Las Vegas...
...help write songs for a musical based on his life. Lucky you can rhyme "rebel governor" with "triple backbreaker" Losers AUSTIN POWERS Faux-spy told his second sequel's title, Goldmember, is too close to Goldfinger. Guess it's back to Man With the Golden Groin MIKE TYSON Brawling boxer denied license, is being investigated for rape. We're contemplating giving him a regular slot on this list MAKIKO TANAKA Fiery Foreign Minister gets canned by Koizumi. Taking on the bureaucrats was bad, but questioning her boss's hairstyle was too much...