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...that these men lacked the guts to put themselves in danger but that they worked in a system in which that sort of bravado wasn't necessary or even allowed. Hong Kong saw action realism as a badge of honor; Hollywood was the fantasy factory. And its action-film stars were such valuable commodities, they had to be handled like preemies. The studios were breeding these men for 20-to-30-year careers. Let them perform their most daring stunts? Nah, we have people who do that...
...born John Carter, in Evanston, Ill.; he took his stage name from his mother's and stepfather's surnames. At Northwestern University, he appeared in a student film of Peer Gynt, and by 1950 he had made his way to Hollywood. Director Cecil B. DeMille immediately saw the actor's appeal, casting him in The Greatest Show on Earth, then giving him the role of Moses in The Ten Commandments. At 32, Heston passed as the old patriarch and aced the movie's crucial scene: Moses holding his staff above his head, parting the waters...
...sister is dying of liver cancer. What can be done to find better cancer treatments? -Becca Hallock, Canton, Conn.Hard question. Pharmaceutical companies have a financial incentive to find a single drug that would beat a disease. But I think with cancer we're seeing what we saw with AIDS. The answer is really in cocktails...
Writers, they say, are whiny, self-indulgent creatures who spend too much time alone. They are egotistical, paranoid and almost always seriously dehydrated. Above all, they are spectacular ingrates. Editors save their asses, and writers do nothing but bitch about it. "If anyone saw the original manuscript from ..." (and you can insert the name of your favorite Pulitzer Prize-winning writer here) "... that guy wouldn't get hired to clean the toilets at the Stockholm Public Library. Say, the Pulitzer is the one they give away in Scandinavia, isn't it? I better remember to change that in a piece...
...course of his candidacy. One woman asked Edwards about the people that said that she should stop campaigning after her cancer returned. Edwards responded by saying that she was trying to teach her children what to do when something terrible happens in life. “What they saw their mother do and what they saw their father do was say that, ‘We are committed to making every day count from now until when the final bell tolls,’” Edwards said. “Every single person should do exactly the same...