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...straddling the tiger and saluting the audience like a manic, peroxided Tarzan. It took two years for him to teach elephant and tiger to cooperate. He had them sleep close together. Later, he took them for walks. Even now, the elephant wears thick padding on his neck during the stunt: Gebel-Williams has been unable to squelch the tiger's instinct to gnaw a hole into the neck of his "victim...
...Flame of the Islands, the Buccaneer's Girl, the River Lady, the Scarlet Angel and the Captain's Paradise. Best cleavage forward, Yvonne De Carlo (real name: Peggy Middleton, of Vancouver, B.C.) steamed her way through Hollywood, sometimes seriously but often as conscious self-parody. The wife of Hollywood Stunt Man Bob Morgan and mother of two boys, De Carlo, 48, is an exemplar of the John Wayne philosophy: go west and turn right. "The whole company kids me," she says. "They call me the fascist rightwinger of the cast. One day Hal Prince and Alexis and I were talking...
...also (somewhat anti-climatically), Hopper walking naked through the streets of. Los Alamos. But more interesting is Hopper's relationship to his work. We see him watching a sequence of his new film. The Last Movie: within the sequence, cameras film peasants who are mock-filming Hopper (portraying a stunt-man) with wooden mock-ups of camera and boom mike, while Hopper remarks to Carson on the soundtrack that he doesn't mind if The Last Movie bombs and kills him for Hollywood. "That wouldn't bother me . . . then I'd be just like Orson Welles." Hopper seems a victim...
...classic Krause stunt was his refusal to go to Yale in 1970 for the dual meet because the itinerary did not include the traditional dinner stop at the Yankee Peddler...
...Carden, as Huck, had to carry virtually the entire first act himself and the weight of that assignment showed. He has some fine turns, like his mimed escape from Pap's cabin, and he possesses a crazy abandon when it comes to attempting just about any kind of physical stunt. But. in an effort to pace himself for the long haul to the intermission, Carden's voice settled for the unexciting middle road. One just doesn't expect to discover such a subdued Huck Finn...