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That Johnson would even be competing in Barcelona came as a surprise to certain law-enforcement types in Missoula, Mont., where he grew up. Johnson and his friends seemed in training merely to become hoodlums. Johnson half- jokingly explains that his early running from police officers and wrestling with other boys kept him in shape. "He's still got a wild side, a sharp edge," says Franson. "He's a committed risk taker, which is just what you need when a competition comes down to the crunch." Although Johnson made a local all-star baseball team as a pitcher...
...punishment expected by hikers and mountain climbers; hot colors and a high-tech look are now attracting buyers who want to wear what the rugged, back-to-nature types swear by. "They're all I wear when it's warm," says Dale Covington, who works at the Trailhead, a Missoula, Mont., outfitter, and owns two pairs. "When it cools off, I wear them with socks...
Some years back, Robert Scott, of the nonprofit Institute of the Rockies in Missoula, proposed the Big Open, a 15,000-sq.-mi. chunk of struggling central Montana that would be linked cooperatively by public and private owners into a wildlife range for 300,000 buffalo, deer, antelope and elk. His figures suggested that on the average, the 3,000 people living there would make more tending to tourists and hunters than from ranching and farming. Writer Douglas Coffman, who helped Scott, saw even more: a chance to recapture a bit of the original American heart, something brave and wild...
...Wild at Heart press book, Lynch's biography reads, in its entirety: "Eagle Scout Missoula Montana." And at his Cannes press conference, this ordinary looking fellow with the buttoned-up collar and the untied shoelace answered questions with the blissed-out graciousness of an Eagle Scout from Mars. Told by one reporter that his films are rife with graphic visions of violence, he stared benignly and replied, "I have even worse." Asked about the similarities in cast and tone between Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart, he said, "The main thing they have in common is wood." Oh. Any more...
Lynch, who has been divorced twice and is now involved with actress Isabella Rossellini, was born in Missoula, Mont. His father, a research scientist for the Department of Agriculture, moved the family several times around the Pacific Northwest before settling in Washington, D.C. Lynch found high school "worthless" but put up with it, then went to art school in Boston. After a brief sojourn in Austria, he moved to Philadelphia to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts...