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...when he found his calling. Fly-fishing on the banks of Montana's Gallatin River in 1977, McIntyre, then a 23-year-old landscaper, noticed brown trout thrashing about in a muddy stream bed nearby, trying to clear silt from the bottom so they could lay eggs on clean gravel. Deciding to help the fish reproduce and make some money for himself, he became America's first commercial stream doctor...
...flashlight and a beginner's manual of English. Villa looks 13, but he claims to be 16. Every morning he hikes over to the "slave market" on Sawtelle Boulevard and hangs around with other youths until someone drives up and offers him $30 for a day's work shoveling gravel or moving furniture. "It's better than picking crops in Mexico," he says. "I'd rather go home than stay here forever, but I don't know when I can do that. I don't think about it, really...
...gravel-voiced Jones has none of the polish of his machines. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and ill-fitting pants, gulps coffee, chain-smokes Pall Malls and often totes a Colt .45. "When I was broke, I was crazy; now that I am rich, I am eccentric," he declares. He is about 65 but refuses to confirm it. His motto for summing up his favorite pursuits: "Younger women, faster airplanes and bigger crocodiles." Jones has had five wives, all of whom he married when they were between the ages of 16 and 20. He lives with his current spouse Terri...
They looked a little older and were perhaps not quite so bouncy: 30 years is a long time by any measurement. But his voice still sounded like an overloaded station wagon lumbering up a gravel road, her wisecracks could still break open a Brink's vault, and they projected the same vitality they did when they were feuding, fussing and making up on Chauncey Street in Brooklyn. Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows, otherwise known as Ralph and Alice Kramden, the Honeymooners, were back together in Miami last week, taping an NBC special to be aired next Monday. As Gleason used...
...vegetable and my desert. And I don't even gotta do the dishes.") Barely fighting the law of inertia, he always seems earnestly preoccupied with doing absolutely nothing. Eddie, Willie's sidekick, is defined by his lack of a personality. He capitulates to whomever speaks the loudest (usually gravel-voiced Willie) and even looks like a watercolor version of Willie's original...