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...Towering Inferno (1974): Of its kind, rather good. Get the actors off and the stunt men on as quick...
...specific smokestack. But there is little doubt about the damaging effects of acid rain. Absorbed into the soil, it breaks down minerals containing calcium, potassium and aluminum, robbing plants of nutrients. Eventually the acid enters nearby bodies of water, often with a deadly burden of toxic metals that can stunt or kill aquatic Life...
...decline by clinging to heroic roles (as Swann does). O'Toole confronts his age directly and triumphs over it. He emerges rejuvenated from My Favorite Year--reborn, in fact, as an immensely talented comedian, even a better actor (a process that was already evident in the wonderful, underrated The Stunt...
...occasionally burst through the box to startle us out of our living-room stupors; O'Toole's uninhibited inventiveness suits that atmosphere perfectly. One has to scramble back beyond the '50s to find a comparison with what he is doing in pictures like this and The Stunt Man. It is, of course, to John Barrymore, offering up his very self to parody the charm and bravado, the intelligence and weakness of the character behind a classic leading man's profile. The result, now as then, is work that goes beyond laughter into the more sublime realms...
...president each semester dinner invitations from undergraduates and has even been known to pull personal stunt of over whelming quaintness several years ago interesting some undergraduates gift of a cake on his birthday with home-baked cookies, for example...