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...when he wrecked his car trying to avoid a county maintenance truck parked just over the crest of a hill. The defendants, owners of the truck, insisted that the driver must have been doing more than 85 m.p.h. A solution came to Merritt one day as he watched Hollywood Stunt Man Alan Gibbs put a car through a midair roll on TV. Why not have Gibbs re-enact the accident on videotape? That was fine with Gibbs, 40, a specialist in motorized mayhem whose credits include racing, spinning and virtually flying Burt Reynolds' Pontiac Trans...
...help fantasizing what would have happened if she and my dad had become lovers 40 years ago, and Kate had been my mother." It was Hepburn whose daunting presence made Jane realize she would have to perform a key scene?a difficult backflip into Golden Pond herself?without a stunt woman. Mama Kate's lesson: "If a child never learns to overcome its fears it will become soggy...
...swim team at the same time. TIM MAXIMOFE, STEVE MUNATONES, COURTNEY ROBERTS and BOB TYLER are spending up to seven hours per day and 30 hours per week in the pool, and that's just regular practice hours which exclude game time. Roberts and Maximoff pulled the same stunt last year, lettering in both sports, and this year Roberts convinced Eliot House roommates Munatones and Tyler to give it a try. Granted, Eliot is the closest house to Blodgett, which cuts down on transportation time, but these diehards spend almost half of their waking hours in the pool during...
...Aviation Hall of Fame member who was a Broadway actress before dropping her stage career to fly planes in the early days of U.S. aviation; in Washington, D.C. A friend of Amelia Earhart's, Noyes took John D. Rockefeller for his only plane ride, in 1930. A stunt flyer, she also competed in numerous air races and was a co-winner with Louise Thaden of the grueling 1936 Bendix Trophy race...
Thus went Operation Big Crunch, endorsed by none other than the august French jewelry firm of Cartier. The stunt was aimed at discouraging the lucrative rip-off of luxury goods through counterfeiting. The crushed timepieces, which will go on display in Cartier stores around the world, were phony renditions of the company's famous $650 Tank watch. They were nabbed en route from Zurich to Tijuana by alert U.S. Customs inspectors. Once in Mexico, the fakes could have been sold for $300 to $400 each...