Word: tigers
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...live is to kill because you don't have to worry about anybody who's dead." William Doyle, former sergeant in the U.S. Army's ?lite "Tiger Force," which, according to a Toledo Blade investigation, killed more than 100 civilians in a seven-month Vietnam War rampage...
People who own tigers feel differently. Yates said, "He's like my brother, my best friend, my only friend really." A professional handler like Fischbacher presumably has a more realistic view of the big cats. Still, he insisted on Good Morning America last week that the tiger Montecore did not really mean to attack Horn, who suffered a stroke after the incident and remains in critical condition. Montecore, insists his owner, thought Horn was in trouble and used a little excessive force in helping out a buddy. Even if that is true--and plenty of animal-behavior experts would dispute...
...Yorker is attacked by the tiger he keeps as a pet in his Harlem apartment. Animal trainer and illusionist Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy is mauled onstage. Back in 1981 in a cover story CATS: LOVE 'EM! HATE 'EM! TIME warned that these furry felines may look placid but are hardly tame...
...movie can create a genre. When Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a worldwide smash, esteemed directors saw the chance to paint their visions on a larger canvas, and producers were happy to bankroll them. Zhang Yimou's Hero was one such honorable spinoff. Now comes He Ping's Warriors of Heaven and Earth, China's official entry for the foreign-language Academy Award...
...Warriors isn't up there with Crouching Tiger and Hero. It meanders in places then rushes through a half-dozen climaxes, including one with weak visual effects (and copped from Raiders of the Lost Ark). But Zhao Fei's cinematography is ravishing, the actors bring heft and glamour to their roles, and the battle scenes have a clanging thrill to them. When the good guys and bad guys wage a group sword fight on horseback, you'll wonder why Hollywood ever thought it could get away with boring old guns...