Category Archives: fights

Now?

May 17, 2013 – 8:13 pm

The other evening I was at a party for the painter Jonathan Gent. The UK native’s work covered the apartment walls of a Wall Street banker, who had been gracious enough to support a live artist. His patron was a basketball player. They always have cred with me. The mini-paintings sold fast and Jonathan was [...]

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Chuck Norris Top Ten List

February 23, 2013 – 2:25 pm

chuck norris, ton ten list, bryan lebouef After Tom Selleck, Chuck Norris was my late gay brother’s favorite actor. Michael’s favoritism was based on trim facial hair. James Brolin was his third choice. Strangely Bryan La Boeuf, painter and rodeo phenom emailed a top ten list for Chuck Norris. And Bryan is straight. Being a [...]

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Bruce Lee Versus Chuck Norris

February 23, 2013 – 2:20 pm

Chuck Norris has deservedly been called one of the all-time great martial artists, but he has admitted on several occasions that Bruce Lee was tougher, even though the two never competed in a tournament. Bruce Lee staged a fight in the 1972 film RETURN OF THE DRAGON and Norris remembered his conservation with Lee. “I [...]

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Chuck Norris Ain’t Shit

February 21, 2013 – 9:22 pm

The other day a young woman entered our diamond exchange to sell a diamond ring. I examined the goods. The stones were poor quality, but I saw about $500 in it. “Come with me.” I sherried her over to my friend. Eddie needed the business and I owed him $200 from a sale in early [...]

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Fight Scene in GIANT

January 15, 2013 – 9:56 am

James Dean fought Rock Hudson in the epic Texan film GIANT. Dean’s character Jett Rink comes out on top in the first encounter after Hudson’s Bick lowers his guard. A second fight doesn’t come off as Jett passes out in a wine cellar dead drunk. “You’re not even worth hitting. … You’re all through.” Bick [...]

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