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Man on Fire: Bodyguard Rampant
There is no such thing as tough. There is trained and untrained. — John Creasy
In 1968, the Italian screenwriter Sergio Donati co-wrote, with director Sergio Leone, the spaghetti-western classic Once Upon a Time in the West, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale. In 1965 Donati had worked, uncredited, on the script for Leone’s For a Few Dollars More, starring Clint Eastwood, and Leone encouraged him to take up screenwriting full-time.
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Donati subsequently wrote for more than seventy films, one of which was the 1989 Australian film Blowing Hot and Cold, directed by Marc Gracie. Blowing Hot and Cold was the only film I ever had a lead acting role in, along with Peter Adams, well known for Cop Shop and Prisoner. The famous Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini was originally cast to play my character, Nino, back in 1984, but by the time the money was secured for the film, Giannini had too many…
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A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
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