Part 3. Stunt people: Hollywood's heroes.
Keywords

Hollywood, stunt people, risks, danger, stunt, animals.
Vocabulary

crowd-pleasing, veteran, alligator, Iroquois, tomahawk, murky, filthy, nose, exotic, panther, rattled, daredevil,raging, demon, denote, build up, artsy, on a wire's edge, choreograph, intricate, consummate, Universal Studios, International Stunt Association.
A. You're going to hear some extracts taken from a radio report on Hollywood Stunt people, pay special attention to the expressions in the bold print.
Match each expression in bold print with one closest in meaning in the box.
1. The "Miami Vice"stunt show at Universal Studios, Hollywood, is a crowd-pleasing favourite: 15 minutes of explosions, wild boat chases and gun battles.
2. Among them is veteran stuntman Monty Cox, president of the International Stunt Association, who does just about every kind of stunt imaginable.
3. One of his more spectacular stunts was in the movie Lady Blue, when he jumped a car 16 feet into the air and 90 feet out into the murky Chicago river.
4. I landed in the water and I told everyone, "I will not even get my lips wet because it's dirty and filthy water."
5. When the car hit the water, it, it nosed in. I had all the windows up, and as it came back, I rolled the windows down.
6. When I go do a stunt, I am not rattled, I am not excited.
7. Like when a lion and tiger wants to eat me, I have to change myself around and be calm, relaxed and cool, because if I go up, he goes up, and the battle's on.
8. But even for expert daredevils, accidents can happen. Cox once suffered a broken back during the filming of an animal stunt.
9. To make him come over there in a rage and want to kill something...you have to build him up to that.
10. And building him up to that is a little bit artsy because obviously you're not being mean to him because he has to like you, but you have to get him emotionally high.
11. And when you get him emotionally high, you're working on a wire's edge.
12. Cox is among about 50 stunt people who also make a living coordinating, choreographing, and directing the often intricate stunts called for in today's movie and TV scripts.
13. The coordinator is also charged with hiring the best stunt men and women for the scenes.
14. And Monty Cox, one of Hollywood's consummate good stunt men, says although he's in his early fifties and has three decades in the field, he can't imagine retiring from the stunt world.