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...recent years, he's been a bear of an actor, a roly-poly pitchman and a clown connoisseur of everything edible. Now, once again, just call him champ. In the 10th round of the big fight Saturday night, George Foreman, 45, knocked out Michael Moorer, 26, to regain the heavyweight title he lost 20 years ago to Muhammad Ali. Foreman's incredible victory was an inspiration to his aging generation and proved that baby boomers still have some boom left...
...Iacocca pitchman for Chrysler, NEIL ARMSTRONG is chairman of a defense electronics firm. He lives on a farm in Ohio, zealously guarding his privacy, granting no interviews on the anniversary of his one small step...
...smiled at them for years -- first as one of the rare, great sportsmen, unruined by his gifts or his fame, warm, grateful, ready to sign one more autograph when he was dog tired and overstretched. He ripened into the affable ABC commentator, the smooth corporate pitchman, even a plausible movie star. The legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg helped him learn the craft, but the art was innate. "He already is an actor, an excellent one," Strasberg said. "A natural...
...Elizabeth Orsay was hard at work in the trauma center of Chicago's Lutheran General Hospital when she was called away from a patient to answer the phone. To her anger and dismay, the caller was a telemarketing pitchman who was touting a special buy on film. "He managed to get through by deceiving the secretary," the still steaming physician recalls. "I told him that what he had done was totally unethical...
Calvin Klein said to be looking for new underpants pitchman...