"He is the last hero of American politics, " said Brandon Goeringer, 22, who drove in early from Greenville to get a good spot near the stage.
Based on Howard Bryant's book "The Last Hero: The Life Story of Henry Aaron, " the film will trace the two years from 1972 to 1974 during which Aaron chased, and bested, Babe Ruth's record -- an accomplishment that was met with both breathless media coverage as well as death threats.
Even the unexpected flop, Last Action Hero, was sold purely on the alleged strength of Arnold Schwarzenegger post-T2.
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McCartney, 37, was honored last November as the CNN Hero of the Year for her efforts in St.
"I could have done this last year, not this hero stuff, " said Ramsey.
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Nor did it help to discover, in the stories about Kennedy's extra-marital affairs, that the country's last real-life presidential hero had feet of clay.
Last year's treble hero and 11-times winner John McGuinness rides again for HM Plant Honda and Padgett's Honda and Ian Hutchinson is also Honda mounted.
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On the other hand, perhaps Italians might decide that the time had at last come to grant their hero the funeral rites that he had desired.
He'd previously been declared a hero, the last person winched off the ship, but he's now accused of failing in his duties to help with the evacuation.
When last we left our anti-hero, his handler, Diana, had injected him with a poison yet resurrected him by kissing him with the antidote on her lipstick.
He has been their leading scorer in each of the last three years and was the hero of their 2005 Challenge Cup triumph over Leeds with the late match-winning try.
As he explained to me over dinner last month, Richard Feynman was his hero.
Huddersfield hero Gavin Clinch scored a last-gasp try and field goal to give the Giants their first points in the Superleague.
But in the early hours of this morning they will burning the midnight oil one last time as Australia's latest national hero cycles down the Champs-Elysees wearing a yellow jersey and with a flute of champagne in his hand.
Baltimore-based Under Armour used its hometown hero in a print campaign in Shanghai last year.
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The youngster had learnt his trade sparring with Enzo's son, world champion Joe who retired unbeaten last year, who he described as his "hero".
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Last week I interviewed Sohinder Gill, the CEO of Hero Electric, the largest maker of electric two-wheelers in India, to learn about the state of electric vehicles in India.
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But Big Leish remains a local West Fife footballing hero and has his share of championships, promotions and last season's CIS Insurance Cup final appearance to look back on with much justified pride.
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In case you haven't been following the virtual rock and roll scene lately, videogame publisher Red Octane recently revealed that there would be no wireless ax for the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II -- even though owners of a "last-gen" console, PlayStation 2, will be able to jam out sans tether.
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Since joining United from Fulham, Van der Sar has won three Premier League titles and the Uefa Champions League, but did not feature in Manchester United's Carling Cup final victory over Tottenham last season when understudy Ben Foster emerged as a penalty shoot-out hero by saving a Jamie O'Hara spot-kick.
Last year, during Mr. Obama's visit to Poland, the hero of Solidarity refused to attend a large gathering to meet the younger leader.
Shirtless England fans, having absorbed the news that Paul Collingwood had decided to make this Test his last, dealt out some fierce taunts towards seamer Mitchell Johnson, the Australian hero in Perth.
That is because Mr Bucaram's supporters are alleged to have been behind an attack last month on Hernan Dario Gomez, a Colombian coach who has become a national hero in Ecuador by taking its lowly team to the brink of an unprecedented place in the World Cup finals.
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Pratley had not scored for 26 games since last season's corresponding fixture at the Liberty Stadium but he certainly proved Swansea's hero on the hour to seal the win.
From the creators of the classic adventure Quest for Glory games comes Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, a 2D adventure-RPG currently down to its last 28 hours on Kickstarter.
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Our taxi driver last night - a frighteningly cool man called Frankie, who cites former Kent wicketkeeper Alan Knott as his hero - asked me about the whole Pietersen saga.
One of the more notorious offenders, a big-boned German named Kim Dotcom, became a cult hero when the U.S. government convinced the Kiwis to shutter his file-sharing platform MegaUpload last August with a brazen raid of his Auckland compound.
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