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...tasteless, occasionally racist lampoons. It's he, not Limbaugh, who uses outrageous put- downs and salty language, right? Such as calling a former U.S. Senator "Alan ('the Cadaver') Cranston" and Perot "a hand grenade with a bad haircut." It's Stern, surely, who used to do an on-air stunt with vacuum- cleaner sound effects dubbed "caller abortions," who chatted with a female caller about giving him "a throat massage" with her tongue, whose current newsletter article on health-care reform is headlined BEND OVER, AMERICA, and who just last week on the radio delivered a parody ad for mail...
...prove grace under pressure by lying down in the middle of a busy highway flipping through a magazine as the trucks swerve to avoid him. He goes unscathed. Shingledecker did not seem especially moved by the film, his girlfriend reports. But the next weekend, he tried the same stunt himself on the double yellow line in the middle of Pennsylvania Route 62 -- and was hit by a pickup truck...
Lecturer on Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyJames E. Davis, who teaches Chem 5, said he firstthought the streak was a publicity stunt, perhapsfor a Harvard a capella group...
...size of his Hong Kong budgets. Still, there were adjustments. "In Hong Kong," notes Van Damme, "he's the Steven Spielberg of action movies, but in Los Angeles he's just the new guy in town." Raimi says Woo "had to be told why he couldn't have American stunt men run their faces through candied glass. In Hong Kong they don't have our safety rules, which leads to more stunt men in the hospital -- and to more exciting action sequences...
...denying, though, that Free Willy is a clever movie toy for the kid market. Most of the time Willy is played by Keiko, a killer whale (actually a type of dolphin) that the company found in a seaquarium in Mexico City. But frequently Keiko is spelled by a stunt double: a high-tech robot coated with 3,000 lbs. of eurythane rubber. (There is also a Turbo Willy - -- essentially the top of the whale, with mammoth hydraulic propellers on the bottom.) How real were the fake Willys? Persuasive enough so that the real Willy got the hots for them. "Whales...