Word: toltecs
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...Scheider, 75, with mournful eyes and the granite jaw of a Toltec deity, had a great movie '70s. He fought the great white shark in Jaws; he helped Gene Hackman search for Frog One In The French Connection; he smoked up a storm and underwent terminal angst as Bob Fosse's surrogate in All That Jazz. To Scheider's tough guy, Mel Ferrer, 90, was Mr. Soulful Softie, scoring as the hobbled puppeteer opposite Leslie Caron in Lili and as Prince Andrei in War and Peace, where he costarred with the fourth of his five wives, Audrey Hepburn. Before movies...
...Zagat four-star. Anyway, Prada and tragically hip in the “I’m-wearing-ethnic-clothing-because-it-makes-a-fashion-statement” sense reigns in a restaurant that doesn’t struggle hard to maintain a Mexican patina. Aztec and Toltec and Mixtec objets d’ art abound, and the decor is suitably sunset yellow and darkened wood...
CUMBRES & TOLTEC A REAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAILROAD HIGH...
...opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, young Indy gallops toward a smoke-billowing circus train and leaps aboard. That engine and those tracks are part of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, a Hollywood favorite and the highest and longest narrow-gauge railroad in the U.S. But seeing it onscreen doesn't compare with riding it firsthand, as 70,000 tourists and train buffs do each year...
...trestles and wends through the high point, Cumbres Pass (elevation 10,015 ft). The second locomotive fires up in Antonito, Colo., and chugs southwest. It threads through two 360-ft.-long tunnels, one of which was blasted out of 1.7 billion-year-old rock a dizzying 600 ft. above Toltec Gorge. You won't find a carload of snakes like the one Indiana Jones encountered. But do keep your eyes open for deer, black bear, bobcat, mountain lion and eagles...