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...looked like a cross between William Holden with a mustache and the young Eli Wallace in Baby Doll, was a man's man: a carpenter by trade and an amateur boxer for pleasure. (A grueling fight, as bloody and intense as anything in Raging Bull, serves as the climax to his 1953 Pepe el Toro.) He was a fanatic about his workout regimen. In a time when Hollywood movies rarely revealed much of their male stars below the collar, Pedro went topless in nearly every film, displaying the bulky muscularity he was so proud of. You could count...
...know this game—it’s called let’s-reconstruct-Saturday-night-over-Sunday-brunch, and it’s a lot more fun when I play it with my own friends. That said, the film does boast an undeniably fantastic car chase climax, on par with the “Vanishing Point,” “Gone in 60 Seconds” (the original one), and “Dirty Mary Crazy Larry” sequences it emulates. But ultimately the difference between the two segments is the attitude each director takes...
...involved a bit of stage business. At the end of the Revolutionary War, he faced a corps of officers who feared they would be sent home, by order of an impecunious Congress, without pay. He called a meeting to assuage their disgruntlement and head off mutinous thoughts. At the climax, he offered to read a letter from a Congressman who promised better things. He began, paused, then took out a pair of glasses. "Gentlemen," he said, "you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service...
...mutual antipathy reached a climax on our last night. We had been driving all day and were just two hours outside Ndjamena, where we could finally be rid of each other, when Bishaq pulled off the road in the village of Bokoro, and announced that it was 6 p.m., and company rules stated he could drive no further. The prospect of one more day with Bishaq was more than I could bear: I shouted at him in the street, calling him "thief," "liar" and much, much worse. I demanded he give me the keys, saying I would drive...
...which we read several primary sources dealing with the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar, I can safely say...this is wrong,” Geselowitz said. Asked why, she responded definitively, “because they are wearing bedsheets.” As for the climax of the reenactment, Geselowtiz said, “I can’t say I was too surprised.” —Staff writer Alexander B. Cohn can be reached at abcohn@fas.harvard.edu...