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...scenario for the opening scene of Rambo: First Blood Part III. The pure fighting machine, as he is known, is in Buffalo on a special mission. But he gets lost downtown and strides into the City Court Building for directions. Bare- chested, with a sweaty bandanna around his head and what looks like an AK-47 rifle in hand, Rambo strikes terror in all who see him. A police alert goes out. Dozens of officers search the courthouse corridors. One policeman, Gerald Baetzhold, draws his revolver, trips and shoots himself in the foot. Our hero, unaware of the chaos...
...real-life drama last week was precipitated by a joke: Rambo was an impersonator named Mark Stancampiano. Mission accomplished, he was heading back to his car when two more officers nabbed him. Stancampiano was later charged with disorderly conduct. Nonetheless, his boss, John Gowen, who has been selling Rambo-grams for six weeks at $64.95 a message, was excited by the publicity. Late last week he was planning to start a new service: the Miss Rambo-gram...
...search long and far to find alternatives to baseball. Though I will certainly miss all the evenings I could have spent sitting around the cracker barrel talking about baseball instead of going to see the games, I am glad that I will not have to rely on a Rambo Film Festival at the Copley Place for my summertime entertainment...
Because it lacks both the one-word title of a Goonies and the kill-all-the-bad-guys aspects of a Rambo or Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future may get lost in this summer's plethora of Spielberg and Spielberg ripoff movies. This is unfortunate, as Back to the Future is what a movie ought to be: two hours of non-stop enjoyment...
...Duke, Dirty Harry and Rambo never lose. Real-life heroes don't always have such a good track record; Delta Force is 0-1 lifetime. And unlike Rambo, they can't rewrite history so that we win all the time...