Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...igniting the heroine's cape in a blaze of fire. Could Actress Lisa Blount survive the scene on the set of Universal's new film, 9/30/55? Actually, Blount could not. No fool when it comes to playing with fire, she had gladly turned the role over to Stunt Woman Kitty O'Neil. The nimble O'Neil took the heat, then casually waved Blount back onto...
...insisted that "Mr. Ford" had not, "except for avoiding another Watergate, accomplished one single major program for this country." (With two exceptions, the challenger avoided calling him "President Ford.") Carter also observed that" Mr. Ford quite often puts forward a program just as a public relations stunt, and never tries to put it through the Congress by working with the Congress...
...born Government man parboiling in sweaty paranoia; Alice Ghostley as a dotty old bookkeeper who has the goods on the gangster; Lauren Hutton as a TV newshen whose professional ambitions ire at war with her attraction to the superstud from the swamps. The job also involves Reynolds, a former stunt man, in a couple of nice action sequences, including a high-velocity motorboat chase and an imaginatively staged concluding set-to with his former friend. Finally, there is a leave-taking between Reynolds and Hutton that is lightly, rightly touched with romantic...
...GUMBALL RALLY is a car stunt comedy about an informal but highly ritualized coast-to-coast race. The competition, organized by a bored businessman (Michael Sarrazin), is joined by a loose freemasonry of friends, rivals and fellow speed freaks. Among them: a libidinous Italian race driver (Raul Julia), a Pennsylvania housewife (Susan Flannery), a crazed motorcyclist (Harvey Jason), even a mechanic and his obstreperous girl friend (nicely played by Lazaro Perez and Tricia O'Neil) who yell and argue from the Hudson River to the Pacific. The course is the superhighway system of America. The object...
...movie shows Ursula as a geologist's assistant who karate-chops her way back to civilization while mussing nary a hair. On the screen, that is. "I worked like hell," protests the actress. "All that fighting! I think I am going to send them a bill as a stunt woman." After similar exertions last year in a sister film (African Express), Andress just might fall victim to superwoman typecasting. "The producer casts me the way he wants to see me," says Ursula. Besides, she laughs, "I am a superwoman...