Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rocket-propelled grenade at the American embassy, lobbed mortars at the U.S. ambassador's residence and bombed several Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in Lima. Those acts initially imbued the guerrillas with an aura somewhere between Robin Hood mystique and radical chic. In 1990 the group staged its most spectacular stunt when nearly 50 members tunneled out of the Canto Grande prison near Lima, supposedly the nation's most secure jail. The crowning indignity was that the operation was videotaped by the escapees, who included Victor Polay, Tupac Amaru's top leader at the time...
...Dennis Rodman and Richard Branson A pair of unblushing brides. The Chicago Bulls star decided to marry himself in a wedding gown at a Manhattan bookstore as a publicity stunt for his confessional, Bad As I Wanna Be, while the British bull artist shaved his beard of 30 years and donned a wedding dress, veil and fishnet stockings to celebrate the launching of his latest venture, the Virgin Bride boutique in London. "I've always had good legs," said Branson. Good taste is another matter entirely. The nerve of either of them to wear white...
...sites worldwide and, despite their iffy quality, were playing on radio and mtv and selling on the streets of London for $10. U2 won't comment, but its label, Island Records, has asked that the songs not be aired anymore--and has refuted speculation that it engineered the stunt to create an early buzz for the album. Ironically, U2 has invested in software to make it easier to download music from the Net; they may be thankful they haven't yet used...
...line "making a list and checking it twice" evokes images of jolly St. Nick, not of belligerent Benito, I think we're justified in assuming that Peninsula's goal was not really to inspire all good men to unbind their faces. Peninsula well deserves the contempt this latest stunt has brought them, but it's hard to believe that their sophomoric hyperbole intimidated anyone...
...Shane Black mines his thriller premise while musing on issues of identity and redemption; he also shaped the itchy camaraderie of Davis and Jackson. Atoning for the flop Cutthroat Island, director Renny Harlin pumps up the genre adrenaline and puts his wife-star through her labors (including a Tarzan stunt echoing one of Jackie Chan's in Police Story). But he keeps sight of the film's disquieting subtext: that we often don't know what monsters swim inside us. And if we did, we might want to start shooting...