Word: reels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychiatrist wants to try for the jackpot. "I'm honored that you'd risk your life for me," she purrs. She has no sooner declined his proposal than the cleaning man arrives and-hey, guess who? Dean Martin, down on his luck and full of last-reel surprises...
...tougher than he looks. In one scene he puts his fist through a paving stone (well, anyway, it looks like a paving stone) almost a foot thick. In another, he connects with an uppercut and rockets his opponent 30 ft. into the air. In the last reel that nasty old Kobrak turns himself into Goliath's double, and at the climax Gordon beats Gordon to a bloody pulp, rips off his smiling mask, displays the inside of his head. It looks like the inside of a pumpkin...
...cogent story line (better, in fact, than the original), and at least three spectacular scenes, each capable of drawing spontaneous applause from any audience. The sex has also been moved up a grade--you won't want to miss the Turkish mode of female competition in the second reel...
...down the Sarapiqui River and the San Juan. The fishing more than made up for the hardship. One of the world's ten top gamefish, the tarpon is a jumping fool that often runs well over 100 Ibs., can snap a line almost at will or make a reel smoke with his furious runs. Experienced fishermen count themselves lucky to boat one out of every ten tarpon they hook into. In three short days at Colorado, contestants boated 102 fish...
...under 20 Ibs. But there is one little fish found in the world's warm waters that sends saltwater anglers into shivering ecstasy and rates up with the monster marlin and tuna. The name is bonefish (Albula vulpes, literally white fox). The biggest ever caught on rod and reel weighed only 19 Ibs. A ten-pounder is worth mounting in the game room, and a 15-pounder is brags forever. Baseball's retired great, Ted Williams, fishes as passionately as he played. He once landed a 1,235-lb. black marlin off Peru. And what does...