Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paid $25 million for them. Flynt, who is running for President on a platform that alleges various Government conspiracies, says his purpose here was to prove that De Lorean had been framed. Since he hardly seemed to have done that, Flynt late last week conjured up yet another showy stunt. He summoned reporters and played what he said was an audio recording of a Government informant threatening the automaker and his daughter if De Lorean refused to participate in the drug scheme. De Lorean has claimed such a conversation did occur, but before the new tape could be checked...
...loudmouthed comedian's boyfriend, Howard Rose, an architect and dues-paying Friar, and she began working on her disguise a month ago. "I thought they would have a sense of humor about it," says Diller. But the club's brass, which may reprimand Rose, found the stunt a drag in every way. Club Director Jean-Pierre Trebot vows to "increase security." How? Well, he concedes, "we're not about to frisk everybody...
...must have been a stunt double who wrote that item about me and The Legend of Walks Far Woman. I have done most of my own stunt work, much more than the insurance company would have liked, suffering numerous injuries in the process...
...more dubious symbolic linkages. But Sam Shepard, the playwright and occasional movie actor, has a wonderful, hypnotic stillness as Yeager. He is a solid rock on which to build a film and most pleasing to the old pilot, who worked on the film as bit player, stunt flyer and technical adviser. "He's not an exhibitionist, and he's not always putting on the air." Well, then, does that mean he has the right stuff? "It's irrelevant in my life. The right stuff. We were doing a job, and if you had the right experience...
Thus it is gratifying to learn that Tabin, 27, who carried off his stunt with several other members of something called the Oxford Dangerous Sports Club, has moved on to more mature concerns. He is in fact a member of an American mountaineering expedition in Tibet that intends to make an ascent without oxygen of Everest's forbidding and unclimbed East Face. George Leigh Mallory, the great British climber who died on Everest while making a summit attempt in 1924, had written of the East Face that "other men, less wise, might attempt this way if they would...