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...Action Man Dick Cheney seems the antithesis of flamboyance. Stout, gray and slightly stooped, his speech measured and monotonous, he comes across as someone who would shun risks. And yet there are stories. There is Cheney the teenager in Wyoming, attaching a rope to the hood of a car and taking turns with his friends water skiing down irrigation canals that ran parallel to roads outside Casper. There is Congressman Cheney in 1983, five years after his first heart attack and a year before his second, catapulting down a treacherous ski slope in Jackson Hole, Wyo., his red scarf flapping...
...lanes for first-class customers at airport security. They're cropping up all over. The other day I was in the regular 59¢ non-express line of middle-class peasants waiting to be scanned, and a few of the ruling elite came sashaying along the other side of the rope to the head of our line--it was line jumping, government sanctioned--and two hefty gentlemen with helmet hair and dangly cell phones butted in front of me as if by divine right and dumped their bags and laptops on the conveyor and forged ahead without...
...candidate of the alliance of Islamic parties for Prime Minister, Maulana Fazlur Rehman?a firebrand preacher who wants the U.S. forces kicked out of Pakistani military bases. Having Rehman as Prime Minister would have been tough to explain to Washington, so Musharraf moved fast. His political fixers tried to rope in Bhutto by agreeing to drop corruption charges against her and her jailed husband, Asif Ali Zardari. Under the deal, insiders say, Zardari would have been freed and sent into exile, while Bhutto herself would have been allowed back into Pakistan after two years to resume her political career...
...half-Iranian, half-Latino young man, who travels to Iran to find his roots. His character attempts suicide after a confrontation with his father. Rossoukh, who did all his own stunts, had to jump into a deep pool of water with a rock tied to his ankle by a rope in a slipknot. Though he had practiced untying it, during the actual filming, while resting on the bottom of the pool and acting as if he were drowning, Rossoukh had trouble releasing the rock. After more than a minute underwater, he finally freed himself and rose to the surface, only...
...brethren, the performers come alive. Among the segments in the film is one in which Knoxville's friends administer paper cuts to the webbing of his feet and hands before submerging them in an aquarium full of rubbing alcohol. In another, Steve-O, who had never walked a tight-rope, walks one over a lake swarming with alligators. (He falls after two steps but somehow avoids getting hurt.) One has Magera, known for traumatizing his father on the show, breaking into the bathroom while his father is on the toilet and beating him up. Today's segment stems from...