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Norris is not magnetic; he does not even have the freak appeal of Mr. T. His / popularity, all in all, is curious. The hard-core audience does appreciate his athletic bona fides. Also, says Code of Silence Producer Raymond Wagner, "he's an enormously nice human being, and that can be sensed on the screen." Norris indeed seems like a nice guy: married for 26 years, doting father of two loving sons, loyal to his friends. "The character I want to build," he said last week during the filming of Invasion U.S.A., "is a man who believes in the right...
...will probably not do the same for Bev Francis, the Australian Amazon who was at the controversial center of the 1983 Caesars Palace World Cup championship in Las Vegas. The body she has created for herself is, to untutored eyes, too awesome and frightening, a kind of self-imposed freak of nature. For that reason, Pumping Iron II is better, funnier and more troubling than its popular predecessor...
...game began at 4 p.m., the snow clumped around the base of the backstop at Soldier's Field-evidence of Sunday night's freak storm-looked disconcertingly like the lime lining the basepaths...
BOSWORTH SEES HER break with the fashion world as the turning point in Arbus' career, the moment she went form being a photographer to being an artist. Forbidden as a young girl from even looking at freaks, she now stared. She began to prowl the streets of New York-late at night, when the train stations were "deep, empty, odoriferous-'like pits of hell''' and when the freaks-came out. Soon she became a regular at Hubert's Freak Museum. Staring at the hideous figures, she felt fear run its course through her body and she was determined to conquer...
Bosworth strives to portray Aubus as the misunderstood artist. At the first public exhibition of he works, the Museum of Modern Art show in March 1967, critics dismissed her as a freak artist. It wasn't until a year after Arbus death that the art world embraced her work. Her pieces were exhibited at the Venice Biennale, a portfolio of her work was published in Art Forum and her name "was rapidly acquiring a semi-mythic status...