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...work for the man who turned Rocky and Rambo into household names? Well, no. Stallone, as it happens, is deathly afraid of heights. He also suffers from tinnitus, which makes him feel dizzy and off-balance. So how did Sly, who says he handled about 75% of his own stunt work, get over his fears? "I didn't," he says. "I was just able to manage it. I'd sit near the edge. Then I would move about 5 ft. closer, 2 ft. closer, not look down, psych myself out. Then when they'd lower me down on a cable...
...director helped. Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Nightmare on Elm Street IV) took Stallone on location months before shooting began to get him used to the heights. He also reassured Stallone by first doing some stunts himself. That included the daring opening sequence: a failed rescue attempt that has Stallone hanging upside down on a cable between two peaks, 13,000 ft. in the air. "I was shamed into doing it," Sly admits. "And that's a pretty hairy stunt...
...promise to cut off supplies to their Bosnian Serb brothers, which we already know is bogus, since fuel trucks have been passing the checkpoints without trouble. Next week after a few more editorials slam us for diddling around, we'll probably hear about the possibility of some other stunt. It's all a joke -- and particularly Macedonia. I mean, a bunch of troops go over there to get better seats to watch the slaughter next door. Come on. You call that standing up to genocide?" No, but it may be a way for Clinton to climb down from a policy...
Educators urging students to hit the books received a horrible setback. During a Chicago Bulls home game, spectator Don Calhoun, an Indiana salesman, was randomly chosen to try a wildly improbable promotional stunt: sink a basket from the opposite foul line, 75 ft. away. Amazingly, Calhoun swished the shot and grabbed the prize: $1 million...
...movie; I was caught up in it." The main street of Concrete, Washington, looks, after a lot of work by set builders, exactly as it did in the '50s. Tobias thinks the actors were marvelous, particularly Leonardo DiCaprio as Toby in a car-stealing scene, a dumb adolescent stunt that happened just the way it was filmed...