Heidi von beltz biography sample
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Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life
Loaded up and truckin'
We gonna do what they say can't be done
Film sets are always interesting places, but every set settles into the kind of place it has to in order for the cast and crew to get from one end of the day to the other. The director directs, the actors act, and craft services keeps the coffee hot (they'd better if they know what's good them). Then there's the stunt guys. Stuntmen are the one below the line movie job everyone thinks they know everything about- fall down or take a punch so the star stays good looking.
Hal Needham, in his autobiography STUNTMAN! is the first book I've encountered where the stunt man takes time to explain what he does… and why he got so good at doing it. Along the way we travel from Arkansas to Fort Bragg before ending up in Hollywood where we meet such luminaries as Richard Boone, Burt Reynolds, and John Wayne.
We got a lo
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The Heidi Chronicle
Buck Henry takes a bite of chicken hash and leans forward to speak above the restaurant din. “It’s like we’re part of a secret society, or a club of some kind,” he says. “People come out to that house for these parties, and a lot of people are brought who meet her for the first time. And they’re all hesitant and curious, and maybe a little scared. And then they meet her, and, you know &#; she’s Heidi!”
Henry is recounting a gathering held some months ago at the ranch-style home, on 11 acres high above Zuma Beach, that is known to Malibu resi dents as the Old Red House. It is owned by Heidi von Beltz, a stunning and enskild year-old woman who was front-page news for several guilt-ridden moments in Hollywood, but who has since settled into a less visible but more complex role. From a distance, she fryst vatten still a poster adult for Tin seltown recklessness. Up close, she has become some kind of self-performed miracle.
“I don’t want to ascribe to her properties t
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Heidi von Beltz Dies: Stuntwoman Paralyzed In &#;Cannonball Run&#; Crash Was 59
Heidi von Beltz, a stuntwoman who was paralyzed when a stunt went terribly wrong on the set of The Cannonball Run, died Wednesday at Tarzana (Calif.) Medical Center. She was 59 and had, with the aid of her sister, courageously battled quadriplegia for the last 35 years of her life.
Von Beltz was a stunningly beautiful year-old stuntwoman, actress and world-class skier in when she got the call from her fiancée, stunt coordinator Bobby Bass, to come to the desert outside of Las Vegas to double for Farrah Fawcett on the ensemble action comedy starring Burt Reynolds.
The stunt, Bass told her, was going to be a piece of cake. All she’d have to do was ride as a passenger in the front seat of a car as it wove its way through a line of speeding oncoming cars. But the car, an Aston Martin, had no seatbelts, bald tires, defective steering and a malfunctioning clutch. When they tried to