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...requires bounty hunters to obtain arrest warrants and be accompanied by peace officers, security officers or licensed private investigators. Curbs have not come easily. Says Gene Newman, president of the Professional Bail Agents of the U.S.: "Whenever we try to pass laws, we hit a lot of resistance from Rambo wannabes who call their legislators...
...Sunbeam Corp. In a brazen display of cronyism, the two last week publicly denounced ITT Corp.'s tactics in fending off a hostile takeover by Hilton Hotels. Picture that: Price, whom FORTUNE magazine calls "the scariest s.o.b. on Wall Street," linking with Dunlap, whose endearing nicknames include "Chainsaw" and "Rambo in pinstripes." A formidable...
...eyes reveals something rare in modern films: how much pain and insult a decent man with zero self-esteem can endure. Of course, he and we know he's the hero who, at the end, will bust out of his emotional lethargy; the soft Rocky will become the battering Rambo. But for a star of Stallone's gaudy wattage, the attitude is bold, subtle and, he hopes, redefining...
...that Stallone doesn't love action films. He sees them as an updating of "the great mythological tales; we just changed the wardrobe a bit." Rambo was the prototype of the one-man-army film. "Yeah," he says with a laugh, "I strapped on the old covered wagon and pulled it across the plains of inventiveness." (He'll probably do another Rambo.) But he admits that some roles he "phoned in--and there's nothing more pathetic than to be complacent in the arts." He has long wanted to do a film "that will be remembered for more than just...
...will manage fine. Like Freddy, he can take the heat. Like Rocky, he's a fighter with heart. And like Rambo, he keeps coming back...