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...confident one. "He believes in himself entirely," says Ethan Hawke, who has worked with him since 1993. "Most of the really talented directors I've worked with are crazy, wild, narcissistic egomaniacs. He happens to be a hell of a guy. He's a heavyweight intellectual but completely without pretense...
...Crimson quickly fell behind a Cambridge boat of heavyweight oarsmen. Harvard’s lightweight squad, competing in an open-weight division for the first time all season, gave up approximately 30 pounds per oarsmen to the Cambridge crew...
...fame of William ("the Refrigerator") Perry has spread far and wide in recent weeks, no one should mix him up with Tab Thacker anymore, right? For those with a slim memory: Perry was a star defensive lineman at Clemson, class of '85, while Thacker was the national collegiate heavyweight wrestling champ from North Carolina State, class of '84. Now as Perry carries on his football career with the Chicago Bears, Thacker is branching out to try the movies. In Wildcats, Goldie Hawn, 40, plays a Chicago high school football coach stuck with the roughest athletes in the city. To help...
From Manhattan's Wall Street to San Francisco's California Street and back, the sounds of heavyweight pushing and pulling echoed across the U.S. last week. Takeover tug-of-war, the contest of corporate wiles and financial muscle that has affected almost every major U.S. industry in the past two years, was back as a premier event in the business world. In the nation's top challenge matches, the largest U.S. steelmaker and the No. 2 banking company, already laden with problems, faced off with some ambitious would-be prizewinners...
...majestic Mohammed Ali Mosque has overlooked Cairo for 130 years. Last week Egyptians were contemplating another Muslim institution with the same name: Muhammad Ali, 44, the noted U.S. automaker. That's right, Ali has gone from rope-a-dope to car star. Lee Iacocca, you could be in a heavyweight fight here. The poetic, peripatetic former boxing champion was in Egypt to announce the launch of a two-seater sports car, to be called the Ali 3 W.C. (for three world championships). The $25,000-to-$30,000 item will be turned out in South Boston, Va., starting next year...