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...pressed, go with the morality lecture. Though we talk about teamwork and selflessness, we don't find that stuff exciting. We prefer individual stars. The truth is, we're a Rambo culture that talks a Saving Private Ryan game. We're a republic that turns out only for presidential elections. We lured Ginger out of the Spice Girls...
...tend to walk around these days saddled with so much stuff that I waddle like a plumber. Beeper, cell phone, personal digital assistant, laptop--sometimes I fantasize about Velcro-ing all my digitalia to bandoliers crisscrossing my chest: the Geek Rambo. Hasta la vista, baby, I say, dropping to my knees, ripping free a cell phone and speed-dialing a pizza...
...First Blood," John Rambo is finally lured out of the woods by his former commander. Now, the man who partly inspired the "Rambo" character hopes to do the same for fugitive accused bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. Retired Green Beret colonel James "Bo" Gritz, the most decorated soldier in American history and a leader of the right-wing "patriot" movement, plans to enter the backwoods of Macon County, N.C., on August 15, hoping to bring Rudolph in safely...
Dunlap appears to have given up on himself even before the board did. Members insist that firing Dunlap never crossed their minds until the man also known as "Rambo in pinstripes" raised the issue himself. At a fateful meeting on June 9, Dunlap said half a dozen times that he would go away quietly if the board were to buy him out of his contract. That was when the board lost confidence. "I was shocked," recalls board member Howard Kristol, a New York lawyer who represented Dunlap in his initial contract negotiation with Sunbeam. "We felt he had already left...
...between, you get a pensive McQueen proving that he could really act and a young and fanatical Richard Crenna proving why he could have been a contender but wound up second banana to Stallone in the Rambo canon. (And, disappointingly, Candice Bergen as the love interest, to whose acting the cheap-shot term "wooden" truly does apply.) A bit of a plodder, but plenty of powerful stuff. The short happy life of Po-hang, a year before Cool Hand Luke, will tear your heart...