Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Simon herself is no stranger to injury. A call tear hampered her performances this winter and she has been troubled with leg injuries throughout her Harvard career...
Even on dry land his scowl could sink a ship. So Walter Matthau had no trouble at all swashbuckling himself into the character of the peg-legged Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red in Roman Polanski's Pirates. The idea of making a period film appealed to him because "I get to act instead of just being Walter Matthau." But apart from the acting, it has not been a barrel of yo- ho-hos. His beard itched for the first five months, dragging around in his 30-lb. costume has been a drudge, and the wooden leg is not exactly comfortable. Filming...
Though his specialty is the hurdles, he is also a talented 400 and 500 meter runner, and runs a leg in both the sprint relay and the mile relay...
...wind was so awful that our rowing felt like leg press, bench pull, leg press, bench pull the whole way," said seven-seat Alison Townley...
...popularity is partly due to its having been out of circulation for nearly 30 years after its release in 1954, and partly due to the ease with which the audience sympathizes with Jimmy Stewart's character. As a photojournalist (i.e., professional voyeur) confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, he starts to realize how much he enjoys being a spectator--and if we didn't, then what would we be doing at the movies, gaping at Grace Kelly as Stewart's girlfriend...