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...Real Fight Club, a for-profit company founded in 2001 by events promoter Alan Lacey. The white-collar amateurs squeeze in two to four 90-minute training sessions a week - plus cross-training on alternate days - with the ultimate goal of getting into the ring to beat the hell out of each other in front of crowds. The attraction? Says Lacey, "Death or glory. Boxing is a chance to make their schoolboy fantasies come true." Now the club is set to expand to Germany, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Lacey has had the most requests from Germans...
...Hughes was also a flamboyant and gifted Hollywood figure. At 21 he produced a movie (Two Arabian Knights) that won an Oscar at the first Academy Awards ceremony. Before he was 25, he had directed and supervised the thrilling dogfights in the World War I fly-boy spectacle Hell's Angels, the flick that made Jean Harlow a star. Two years later, Hughes produced the best and most brutal of the early gangster dramas, Scarface. After a decade-long vacation from films, he made The Outlaw, a notorious Western whose main point of interest was Jane Russell's bosom...
...just meant she followed our Iraq coverage. Char told me, three times, that despite the fact that neither Cassandra nor I ski, "I see you two on a ski trip." And Char said that if my friend Adam Sachs has any premonitions about a terrorist attack to get the hell out of New York City. I foresee Adam spending much of the next two years messing with my head...
...boarded the trawler, inspected the poison and decided it should be tipped back into the sea in a designated dumping area. Branick, though, was in a bad way. "I was fine until I came into the warmth below deck," he says. "Then it started to itch and burn like hell on my back. I took off my clothes. The others said, 'What's that on your back?' It was a red spot the size of a child's fist." Fishing - Branick's job since he was 16 - has long been regarded as one of the world's most dangerous occupations...
...started to itch and burn like hell. I took off my clothes. The others said, 'What's that on your back?' - THEIS BRANICK, Danish fisherman