Word: daredevils
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...Died. Greg Davis, 54, peripatetic, daredevil photojournalist for many international publications, including TIME; of liver cancer; in Tokyo. The Californian first went to Asia with the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, and he settled afterward in Japan. He covered subjects in Russia, Central Asia and almost all of the Far East, with a special passion for North Korea and Vietnam...
PASS THE BUTT-KICKING BATON One suspects that if JENNIFER GARNER'S character in Daredevil had worn a turtleneck and baggy jeans, we might have seen the end of her, but the leather-clad Elektra is getting her own spin-off. The already announced sequel is no surprise: Daredevil made $45 million in its opening weekend. But news of Elektra's spin-off is more of a shock. Not to give anything away, but her health seemed somewhat less than robust at the end of the film...
Even though Ben Affleck has donned Daredevil's horns, directors are finding it a slog to get A-list stars to play comic-book crusaders...
...weeks ago, the universe's top action star acknowledged that, if a movie requires him to "ride an F-16 jet fighter, or to jump over a series of hurdles with a crazy horse, or to perform two 720-degree somersaults," he will hand the job to a younger daredevil. "But one somersault, I'll do it myself...
DIED. EVELYN TROUT, 97, daredevil pilot of the 1920s and '30s; in La Jolla, CALIF. The first woman to fly an all-night route, trout was the last surviving member of the inaugural All-Women's Transcontinental Air Race, from Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland, Ohio, IN 1929--an event Will Rogers dubbed "the Powder Puff Derby...