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Neither of those facts, not even his virtuosity on the French horn, made Finch particularly special to then-Mets pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre, or even to Harvard head coach Loyal K. Park, who led the Crimson to a .727 winning percentage and five Ivy League titles from...
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, dyin' time's here." With that genial salutation, the hunchbacked emcee greets a braying mob assembled for the evening's entertainment at Thunderdome. Welcome to a death duel between that stoic wanderer of the postapocalypse Australian wasteland, Mel Gibson's Mad Max, and his monstrous iron-masked opponent, known as Blaster. You are privileged to witness, as well, an astonishing display of virtuoso cinema that is destined to take its place among the most vivid and freshly imagined fist-to-groin contests in the medium's history...
Every day Mel Fisher greeted crew members from his Florida Keys salvage boats with the same encouraging cry: "Today's the day!" But for 17 years Fisher, 64, was wrong. The day, the one on which he and his 73-member crew would find the cargo of the legendary Spanish galleon Nuestra Seņora de Atocha, never seemed to arrive. Still, Fisher's cheerful shout kept the crew going through the tough, fruitless years when other salvagers gave up the search for the famed and mysterious 17th century mass shipwreck in which eight or nine vessels were lost...
...Treasure Salvors Inc., has since described as "a reef of silver bars with lobsters living in it." Many are now calling the find the largest ever recovered from a shipwreck. "They were jumping up and down and waving their hands at us in the water," says Kane Fisher, Mel's 26-year-old son, referring to the pair of divers who made the initial discovery. "At first we thought something was wrong. Then they started shouting, 'We found it! We found it!' " The silver, said Diver Taffi Quesada, 24, Fisher's daughter, "was stacked up like cordwood...
...that his behavior with the two sisters is a mite unusual: "I tried to feel peculiar about being married to one and sleeping with the other, but it didn't work." Then his soon to be ex-wife shows up at the motel. So does Dominica's former husband Mel, who may be the one who has spread glass on her beachfront and menaced her in other ominous and anonymous ways. On the other hand, Mel may be innocent. His brother Minnie arrives, bearing a big statue of a horse. Martin, Alex, Dominica, Mel and Minnie, along with some others...