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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110215:12:53:00

there on, i moved to california and i got a job on a movie called the spirit of st. louis the wing walker and hanging on a rope ladder underneath the plane and i thought, well, this is better than robbing 7-elevens. i think i ll give it a shot. hal, out of everything you ve done as we re seeing all this footage of what you ve done, where do you think you became closest to actually losing your life? well, you showed two of them. one of them is right there. that pickup truck. if you watch, see what happens is i intended to push off of that truck and get away from it. but the thing is when you try to leave something in mid air, you re going the same speed it is, i didn t get anywhere. i followed the same path. go over you. i m sorry? did the car go over you? no. but i only missed it by six or eight inches, something like that.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110215:12:52:00

career. famed stuntman and author of my death defying hollywood life, he joins us right now from hollywood. good morning to you, hal. hi, how are you guys? we re doing fine, thank you very much. and we should point out that give us a little litany of some of the movies that you have had a hand in. oh, my goodness. well, i ve done 330 movies and 310, i think it is, and over 4500 hours of episodes of tv. so it would be impossible. you know, i did the undefeated . i did little big men and the list goes on and on. how did you get into the business, hal? how do you become a stuntman? well, i had a pretty good background the fact that when i was very young, i got a job as a tree topper. then i joined the military and i went in the paratroops and from

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110215:12:55:00

i m interested in this question, hal, how has the stunt business changed since you were in your hey day. well, i think it s changed quite a lot just in the fact that today, the stuntmen concentrate on being in better shape. they re physically. and not only that but the equipment has changed immensely. i mean, we got better equipment out there they use in the day and i must say i brought quite a bit of it into the industry myself. but there s equipment out there today that s unbelievable. they have a piece of equipment called a descender. guy jumped off of the space needle in seattle. right. with no pads. i mean, you know, pad wouldn t have done any good from that height. but he jumped off with no pads and stopped 15 feet above the ground. and i m glad they didn t have that when i was there because there wouldn t be enough people on the crew to throw me off that thing. basically, hal, we re talking to somebody who is fearless?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110215:12:41:00

go for it. all right. brian, get in position and we ll see you at the conclusion of this. coming up, new york s mayor doesn t have enough police officers to enforce his own smoking ban so he wants you to make a citizens arrest. would you do it? and don t miss the rest of our great line-up today. legendary stuntman hal needman in the next five minutes. laura ingraham at the top of the hour. a couple that gave away the baby after being implanted with the wrong embryo. donald rumsfeld takes a swing here on fox & friends.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110215:12:51:45

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110215:12:51:45
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