There have been somber shorts ("Cannonball"), action-only compilations with the subprime-mortgage crisis as a backdrop ("A Badlands Adventure") and countless self-produced YouTube videos.
In 1985, amid safety concerns, the Cannonball Loop at New Jersey's Action Park was shuttered, relegating the ride to nearly 20 years of obscurity.
"A cannonball could be moved eight miles by the action of the river in the course of two centuries.
Hal Needham, a veteran Hollywood stuntman who later embarked on a less risky career as a director of action movies including "Smokey and the Bandit" and "The Cannonball Run," both of which starred his friend Burt Reynolds, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles.
If chefs are "the new rock stars" (the Times) and rap is "the new rock and roll" (Kanye West), then the Roger Daltrey of the current moment is a cannonball-shaped thirty-one-year-old rapper from Flushing named Action Bronson.
By Andrew Marantz Action Bronson and Mario Batali If chefs are "the new rock stars" (the Times) and rap is "the new rock and roll" (Kanye West), then the Roger Daltrey of the current moment is a cannonball-shaped thirty-one-year-old rapper from Flushing named Action Bronson.
Reynolds rose to the top of the acting world in the 1970s in dramas such as "Deliverance" and action-comedies such as "Smokey And The Bandit" and the "Cannonball Run" series.
During the next century, mathematicians showed that Newton's laws of motion could be rewritten in a similar vein: an orbiting planet or a hurtling cannonball moves as though it were trying to minimize a more abstract quantity called "action".
Mr. Shaw's sound on alto saxophone can variously suggest Cannonball Adderley, Jackie McLean or his mentor, Bobby Watson -- it's brawny and full-bodied, but capable of quicksilver actions -- and his improvisational method is surefooted and exploratory.
If there's not enough action in the mosh pit, fans can watch skateboarding, bicycle and motorcycle stunts, as well as a human cannonball.
Allison does a cannonball.
