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DIED. CHARLES BRONSON, 81, roughhewn Hollywood B actor turned international movie hero; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Born Charles Buchinsky (a name he worked under until he changed it during the communist-hunting McCarthy era), he brought his low-key macho swagger to such '50s films as Machine-Gun Kelly before becoming a sensation in Europe as the co-star of France's Adieu l'Ami (1968), in which he and Alain Delon played a pair of burglars. In the U.S. he remained a solid, if unheralded, ensemble player in films such as The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape...
...screw up their faces or turn away," says boxing trainer Umar Taitt, whose two front teeth are gold set with diamonds. "In boxing, you can't flinch." Clearly, boxing appeals to some on a primal level. "I think, in a perverse way, there's a lot of suppressed macho tendencies coming out," says Kevin Mitchell, a sportswriter for the U.K.'s Observer weekly and author of War Baby: The Glamour of Violence. "Most of us go through life without ever throwing or landing a blow in anger, except for the odd fight at school. As we grow up, it becomes...
DIED. Charles Bronson, 81, macho movie actor whose steely glare might have relegated him to villain roles but instead helped make him the top action star of the 1970s; in Los Angeles. Born Charles Buchinsky, the 11th of 15 siblings in a Lithuanian immigrant family, Bronson followed his father to work in the coal mines of South Pennsylvania before serving as a tail gunner in World War II. Longing to escape the deprivations of his childhood, he went to Hollywood and landed supporting roles in The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape and The Dirty Dozen. In Europe, Bronson made movies...
...other comes naturally. Lines such as "The greatest happiness in my life is to be with you" sound as if they were lifted from his 1996 feel-good romancer Comrade: Almost a Love Story. (Lai tells TIME that he relished the chance to at least try on a more macho role: "It is easier and more interesting to play an [action hero] than to play the same role over and over again...
...between the car chases and gunplay, Chan lays in plenty of the good-natured banter and macho high jinks that are standard issue in buddy-cop pictures from Hong Kong to Hollywood. At one point, Ekin Cheng banishes a junior officer to the inside of a huge fish tank, where the underling must count the number and variety of each fish?while wearing only underwear...