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...filming in remote locations, but few have faced half the hardships inflicted on the cast of Platoon. Fresh from the fleshpots of New York and Los Angeles, the film's young stars found themselves deep in the Philippine jungle, which stood in nicely for Viet Nam. Clad in sweat-stained fatigues and stooped beneath 60-lb. backpacks and rifles, they marched day and night through leech-infested streams and swarms of insects...
...found fear staining his sheets. A dream had startled him awake. He was 16 years out of Viet Nam, but in the dream, "they had shipped me back. Somehow they found me at the age of 38 and sent me back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror." That was two years ago. Now Stone, who earned a Bronze Star and a MASH unit's worth of physical and emotional wounds in the jungles of Viet Nam, has transformed his war experience -- the bad dream he lived through for 15 months in 1967-68 -- into a film called...
...STILL ENJOYED rambling around the ranch homes and orange groves. But now I also noticed the ever-present Mexican workers who were tidying up the yard and picking the fruit. Life wouldn't be so relaxed for the lucky ranch dwellers without the sweat of their hired labor. They probably wouldn't even live there without the Mexicans to pick up after them...
...such frantic devotion: as little as $15,000, less than a fourth of the pay for a tenured full professor in the California system. In 1983, Roy finally won a probationary tenure appointment at Cal State. Her income has improved to about $28,000, but she still must sweat out the standard six-year probationary period, knowing that around 1988 it could end with one year's notice to get lost. Says she: "It makes me nervous as hell...
Erving expects life after basketball to be "less gratifying" but "more meaningful." He says, "I also expect my palms might sweat next year watching the 76ers play. It has a place, but so many things have places. I'll move on." Seeing to his creaky knees, icing them down a thousandth time, Erving is often last out of the locker room. Whatever hour he leaves, there always seem to be children outside the door. "They don't want signatures anymore," he smiles. "They're looking for souvenirs." Winners' out. Memories...