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...film's characters to fitting the stereotype of a refrigerator repairman. A simple 6 ft.-5 in., 275 pound kid from Brooklyn, New York, Ferrigno's strength bewilders him. His father, a retired New York City policeman, coaches, mothers and worships his boy who is "just like something Michelangelo carved." At the championships in South Africa, Schwarzenegger easily outpsyches Ferrigno. Ferrigno is so child-like and yet imposing, it seems at any moment he is going to ask George to "tell me 'bout the rabbits...
...Louis appears to be every bit as gorgeous as Arnold. What he cannot see, and what his old man will never accept, is that Arnold has a gift that cannot be acquired no matter how hard an athlete trains, no matter how many pep talks replete with references to Michelangelo's sculpture he absorbs. It is, of course, the gift of charisma, something capable of magically compelling his opponent's collapse and the judges' favorable votes...
...material than any other sculptor. A log is a log; it cannot be melted down or extended. One can order marble to size, but no tree in China or Japan could possibly give a sculptor a large enough balk of timber to carve something as big as Michelangelo's David. Even if there was such a tree, there would be insuperable problems of technique. Wood is grainy. It favors continuous, compressed shapes with a strong axis along the grain. Anything that sticks sideways from the block-an arm, say-is weak and splits off. Hence the elongated, torpedo-like...
Listening to Dino de Laurentiis, one gets the distinct impression that this master of sensationalistic tripe would re-make Michelangelo's David and build it 500 ft. tall if he thought there were a buck to be made. The late Willis O'Brien, who expressively animated the original King Kong, must be turning in his grave...
Before those weeks of refuge, Figiovanni wrote, Michelangelo had been impossible to deal with; he was a man "with whom Job would not have kept his renowned patience for even one day." After it, "Michelangelo asked me pardon a thousand times." No doubt he was immensely relieved to be out in the air again, and carving. The drawings he left on the walls-evidently done behind shutters at night, for his lines are in places visibly interrupted by the grease from guttering candles-were a means of passing the time during that irritating concealment. They are not among the sculptor...