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And so this is exactly what happened. i started doing "pumping iron." i started doing "stay hungry." once you get used to it, it's hard to give up. i know how to stay hungry. and start slowly breaking in, and all of a sudden came the big break when ed pressman saw "pumping iron" and he saw my body and my personality. he said, "this will be perfect for 'conan.' i'm gonna buy the 'conan' rights." and that's exactly what he did. the very thing that the agents and studio executives said would never work, this big body, all of a sudden, it was an absolute must in order to do this movie. and the sam...

So that the steel can be shown, but it was not used in some of the fight scenes because you didn't want to cut anyone. why this is significant is because "conan the barbarian" was really the first big breakthrough movie for me internationally. so this bodybuilder is 6'2", 250 pounds, and all of the muscle men were in the '50s were in movies. and then you got, around the "conan" time, al pacino and, you know, people much smaller than that. how did you think you were gonna break into movies with that landscape? when i went to agents and to studio executives, they would say to me, "you want to be...

Spacey put him on a bed, and "lays down on top of me, pressing into me." but rapp was able to squirm away. spacey posted a statement to twitter, saying he was "horrified" but "does not remember the encounter." adding, "i owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior." he then turned to the subject of his sexuality. "i have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life, and i choose now to live as a gay man." the "house of cards" star now under fire. critics say he was trying to shift the focus from the alleged abuse of a child. act...

Get liabled, what she meant is i might get sued. there might be a lawsuit against her. and both gabe and i were on the receiving end of threats from roger ales that he would sue us, very threatening words. i think people who are not in journalism or book writers don't quite get immediately how threatening it is when really high powered lawyers come at you when you're trying to make inquiries. kim masters had this problem recently and wrote a piece about it today. so it's not just that, you know, journalists want to be buddy buddy with the executives -- the studio executives so is that their sc...

It's a sorkin movie or tv show. how do you put it into words? >> without getting too crafty about it, there's structure. there's three act structure. the great writers hide it. the bad writers, the movies that are written by studio executives and junior executives who got their note in, they're all formula. they're all and then, and then the plot changes. aaron hides all of that. he hides all of that so that by the time a story point changes where the story's going, you're pulled with it instead of anticipating it. >> that's one of the things he does. >> you have some experience with the alter...