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...from Barrington, R.I., is the seventh known person to go over the falls and survive. Trotter, who carried a two-way radio and two oxygen tanks in the event he ran into trouble at the bottom of the falls, says he took the plunge "to get recognition as a stunt man." As far as the Canadian authorities are concerned, he has achieved that goal. He is scheduled to appear this week before an Ontario court, where he can be fined as much as $500 for performing an illegal stunt...
...film Chevy Chase would make. It comes complete with Jack Chester (Candy) as the anxiety ridden father, and his caricature family, all of whom are off to Florida for a month-long stay in a summer beach house. One enters the theater hoping that Candy can pull the stunt off better than Chase ever did, but leaves with the feeling that this movie would have been better with Candy cast as one of the sidekicks...
...Communist takeover. In late May the Today stars and staff -- 47 people in all -- traveled 2,500 miles on a specially outfitted train through the American heartland, stopping off to beam the show live from Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Indianapolis and Cincinnati. What might have been merely a promotional stunt turned into an enticing Baedeker of American urban life and the country's romance with the rails. The show did not simply dwell on the sunny side of the tracks; Gumbel and Pauley examined troubled race relations in Memphis and Cincinnati's antipornography laws...
...over their loved one's virtues, only Ben Evett crosses the line into the merely silly. The foursome fare much better disguised as dancing Cossacks, taking their roles a little less seriously. Thomas Derrah stuffs King Ferdinand's shirt full enough to make his vow seem like an everyday stunt. Jones, as the Princess, is unable to cut as distinctive a swath, and of her attendants, only Laurie Gallucio appears as a likely candidate for love at first sight...
...effort into a cause they could perhaps better assist in other ways. A real peaceful protest, civil disobedience done well would certainly be an improvement. Though the protest wasn't expected (SASC wasn't supposed to know), inviting a South African to speak may have been a foolish stunt, it seemed more intended to provoke liberals than to let the South African government have its say. Certainly all sides would be better off had this unpleasant incident not occurred. Perhaps SASC should invite its own speaker, for instance the member of the African National Congress who debated Mr. Hoppenstein...