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The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Action Heroes

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

The Unusual Career of a Movie Star

Cigar would come in with a loaded gun and the writers would ask him what were you up to on the weekend? And he would say, oh, I can't talk about it. It's classified. So his whole thing is that it would be breaking some kind of covert ops code if he were to talks about it. He had this really meteoric rise and then quite quick full as well. When do these guys like Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, when do they start to realize that their days are numbered? That things were shifting in the United States where their type of movie wouldn't have a receptive audience.

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