Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coppola unveils his new film in a bankruptcy-defying stunt...
...passionate music buff and audiophile, Lintgen (pronounced Lint-jen) has been regaling friends with the stunt for five years, ever since being challenged at a party and finding, to his surprise, that he could do it. He has also been put to the test by skeptical musicians and critics, as well as by James ("The Amazing") Randi, a professional magician who specializes in debunking claims of "paranormal" phenomena. Performing recently for a television crew from That's Incredible! he scored 20 for 20 in a demonstration set up by Temple University Musicologist Stimson Carrow...
...neck and her hands tied behind her back while she balanced atop a two-foot-high stool on a platform 15 feet above the ground. All this while Quasimodo, the hunchback bell ringer, played by Anthony Hopkins, 43, clumsily scrambled about trying to free her. "Anthony is no stunt man," says Lesley-Anne, "and the makeup job left him with just one eye open. I'm still having choking dreams...
...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...