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...announcement that the world's most famous astronaut would return to space next October, 36 years after becoming the first American to orbit the earth, was greeted with pleasure, amazement and some skepticism. Critics argued that the flight was merely a public relations stunt; NASA insisted it was motivated by good, hard science. Glenn, while officially echoing NASA, added a reason of his own: "I see this," he said, "as another adventure into the unknown...
...hard-core sex in inspired locations like California's Highway 15. The IEG tape enhances these moments with slow-motion replays and a pornish sound track. At least a few viewers, including Seth Warshasky, the head of IEG, think the Lees staged the whole thing. "It's a publicity stunt," he says. "The tape looks like it was produced to be shown." Perhaps there's no such thing as overexposure...
Lacking answers, the summit wound down with a panel of actual children--a cute if predictable stunt. Onstage with their parents and teachers before a ballroom full of strange, faceless adults, the kids readily assured us that they do all they can to avoid naughty material on the Net. They were perhaps a bit more credible when talking about the genuine fun you can have online--a notion that may have escaped many of their listeners. The president of a Website company bet that if I asked summit participants what they used the Internet for, most would say nothing...
FALSE. Titanic logged 6,029 stunt-man days, probably a movie-industry record (True Lies had 2,202). In all that time there were three injuries requiring hospital treatment: one broken ankle, one cracked rib, one cracked cheekbone--and in the latter two, the stunt players were back at work the next...
...Many stunt people were seriously injured...