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...more dubious symbolic linkages. But Sam Shepard, the playwright and occasional movie actor, has a wonderful, hypnotic stillness as Yeager. He is a solid rock on which to build a film and most pleasing to the old pilot, who worked on the film as bit player, stunt flyer and technical adviser. "He's not an exhibitionist, and he's not always putting on the air." Well, then, does that mean he has the right stuff? "It's irrelevant in my life. The right stuff. We were doing a job, and if you had the right experience...
Thus it is gratifying to learn that Tabin, 27, who carried off his stunt with several other members of something called the Oxford Dangerous Sports Club, has moved on to more mature concerns. He is in fact a member of an American mountaineering expedition in Tibet that intends to make an ascent without oxygen of Everest's forbidding and unclimbed East Face. George Leigh Mallory, the great British climber who died on Everest while making a summit attempt in 1924, had written of the East Face that "other men, less wise, might attempt this way if they would...
...still knew how to entertain, if not give pleasure. The old double-entendres could still raise a grimace, and with the help of his blessed stunt team, Bond would doubtless eel his way through tight spots until he was older than yesterday. By then he would be played by Anthony Andrews or Michael Jackson, and his adversary would be an octogenarian Norman Bates or Rocky Balboa. And the women would still be young and beautiful...
Only occasionally do weddings in 1983 approach that standard. The stunt wedding remains common enough, of course. It is usually performed with traditional vows, however, for the same reason that a dancing dog generally does the foxtrot; the bizarre does its best work in conventional forms. There are the hobbyist enthusiasms: the nudist nuptials, for example, and the ceremonies for skindivers performed underwater. In April a couple were married while circling above California's Santa Monica mountains, scrunched down with the minister in a single-engine Beechcraft Sierra. The rest of the wedding party, including the mother...
...stunt wedding has a certain goofball exhibitionist charm. The ceremony in which the couple write their own vows is more problematic. It is probably just as well that couples have been returning to the traditional formula, wherein the dearly beloved are gathered and the old familiar take-this-man, take-this-woman deal is struck. Couples only occasionally tinker here and there. (Most brides are careful to make sure that the vows are equivalent; the word obey is vanishing...