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AMPUTATED. Transplanted hand of CLINT HALLAM, 50, wily ex-con who lost his original hand in prison, then vied for and received the world's first hand transplant in 1998. He failed to stick with anti-rejection drugs and had the extremity removed in hush-hush surgery in London. The hand has been sent to doctors in France for examination...
Strong may be an understatement for the way the Crimson competed on Saturday. In the first match of the day, sophomore Patrick O'Donnell faced the tough task of taking on Cornell's Clint Wattenberg, ranked No. 1 in the EIWA 165-pound weight class. O'Donnell pulled off an exciting 3-2 decision over Wattenburg...
...carries a gun and a grudge. Like the uninflected killer played by Alain Delon in Jean-Pierre Melville's classic 1967 crime film, aptly titled Le Samourai, Kitano walks slowly, stares blankly; he might be a patient whose life the surgeons have saved by removing his soul. Like Clint Eastwood in his early surly days (A Fistful of Dollars, Dirty Harry, Pale Rider), Kitano is implacable, dispensing retribution that may also be justice, but only coincidentally. He is a Zen or zombie Clint?a Dirty Harakiri...
That's why Beat Takeshi, 54, has become the icon for Japan's troubled times. Think of David Letterman, Clint Eastwood, Dave Barry and Quentin Tarantino all rolled into one person?and then give that one person bumper-to-bumper, gavel-to-gavel, cover-to-cover, morning-till-evening omnipresence on any and all forms of media. He is a one-man entertainment conglomerate, and has been a dominant pop culture figure for more than 20 years. In addition to his seven TV shows, he has penned 71 volumes of satirical commentary, written poetry and reams of magazine columns...
...cult following owing to her role as sexual-revolution poster girl Mary Ann Singleton in two Tales of the City miniseries (a third will air this year on Showtime). But in her major movies, she's been upstaged by her male co-stars: Truman's Carrey, Absolute Power's Clint Eastwood, Primal Fear's Richard Gere and Congo's primal brutes...