This too ended up being a staged PR stunt perpetrated by Greif.

* Crush, Texas was located just three miles ( 5 km ) south of West and location of The Crash at Crush, a head-on collision between two locomotives that was staged on Sept. 15, 1896, as a publicity stunt for the Missouri – Kansas – Texas Railroad.

Director Lee Sholem cleverly staged new scenes with a stunt double, conserving Kilbride's energy for dialogue and close-ups.

" The band in question was the ABBA tribute Björn Again, who staged a successful publicity stunt in the early 1990s, arriving at Heathrow airport in white one-piece outfits similar to the ones worn by ABBA on the cover of their 1976 album, Arrival.

On December 21, 2007, Stern revealed this was a stunt staged for " theater of the mind " and to torture Sales ; in truth, the piano was never harmed.

In a 1960 promotional stunt for his move to WOR-TV, Zacherley staged a presidential campaign.

* September 15 – The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad ( the ' Katy ') conveys 40, 000 people to Crush, Texas to witness a staged train wreck as a publicity stunt arranged by its general passenger agent, William George Crush.

The narrated tram tour ( formerly " GlamorTrams ") still runs through the studio's active backlot, but the staged events, stunt demonstrations and high-tech rides overshadow the motion-picture production that once lured fans to Universal Studios Hollywood.

On February 15, 2006, Disney staged an elaborate publicity stunt for Expedition Everest in New York City's Times Square, according to a report by radio station WINS:

They go out of the pub and Björk runs through the town drunk, falling over at one point ( according to the ' Making Of ' segment included on the DVD, the fall was staged with a stunt double ).

Fitts, said the bombing was a publicity stunt staged by Clinton and Raymond, but witnesses testified that the police had had Clinton's house under surveillance.

As a publicity stunt to demonstrate the car's reliability, Toyota staged a campaign common to American automakers: a coast-to-coast endurance run from Los Angeles to New York.

Rob Lineberger of DVD Verdict praised several episodes of the show (" War and Peace " in particular, for " recaptur the magic of classic Highlander through carefully staged flashbacks, compelling moral questions, Immortal ethics, and amazing stunt work ") and said that " there is something singularly compelling about show, something that makes DVD set's $ 40 street price worth considering ," but said of the show overall: " The writing is below the common denominator, using clichés in the blandest ways, ... the chemistry between the two leads is rudimentary at best, with little to no character development, the style of the show is somehow off, the music awkward, the direction formless.

An " international incident " staged between Storybook and the Toledo Zoo was later revealed to have been a publicity stunt.

BASE jumping is significantly more dangerous than similar sports such as skydiving from aircraft, and is currently regarded by many as a fringe extreme sport or stunt.

In January 1923 the pair announced their engagement ; by July they had separated, leading to speculation that the relationship was a publicity stunt.

" The stunt work was mostly performed by the actors themselves and Ang Lee stated in an interview that computers were used " only to remove the safety wires that held the actors ".

Barred from Major League Baseball during his prime, Veeck's signing of the aging star in 1948 was viewed by many as another publicity stunt.

The accident caused the Missouri Valley Conference to ban its member schools from allowing cheerleaders to be " launched or tossed and from taking part in formations higher than two levels " for one week during a women's basketball conference tournament, and also resulted in a recommendation by the NCAA that conferences and tournaments do not allow pyramids two and one half levels high or higher, and a stunt known as basket tosses, during the rest of the men's and women's basketball season.

In 39, Caligula performed a spectacular stunt by ordering a temporary floating bridge to be built using ships as pontoons, stretching for over two miles from the resort of Baiae to the neighboring port of Puteoli.

Godzilla was portrayed by stunt actor Shinji Takagi.

The effort is thwarted by a stunt in which Harold appears to kill Maude.

The 40-year-old Brabham was annoyed by press stories about his age and, in a highly uncharacteristic stunt, at the Dutch Grand Prix he hobbled to his car on the starting grid before the race wearing a long false beard and leaning on a cane before going on to win the race.

The Loch Ness tooth was a publicity stunt to promote a horror novel by Steve Alten titled The Loch.

Just as it had been in Coornhert's time, supporting the Coster legend became a publicity stunt for one of Haarlem's most important businesses, and the Enschedé company complied by offering tours of the printing presses, and even opened the Museum Enschedé in 1904 on the Klokhuisplein ( now the location of a memorial plaque ).

Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent in a publicity stunt to find him by the New York Herald newspaper, greeted him with the now famous words " Dr Livingstone, I presume?

The name was made up, as a publicity stunt, by the film producers ; he had to choose from a list of twenty names and picked the one with his mother's initials.

The chase featured a spectacular motorcycle stunt: stuntman Ronald " Duffy " Hambleton ( credited as Duffy Hamilton ), rode his police bike full speed into a fallen paint stand ( with a ramp built to Hambleton's specification ), flew over the handlebars, was hit by the airborne bike, landed in the street on his back, and slammed into the crashed car that Duvall's character had escaped in-evidently the subject of a comment by Lucas detailing a " motorcycle disaster " during the filming.

* In the stunt driving shots from the car-chase scene, the Pluto, the police dog in the back seat, was played by Jittlov wearing a coat over his head.

Ten Powhatan Indians are brought by Sir Thomas Dale, the colonial governor, at the request of the Virginia Company, as a fund-raising stunt.

However, it was later revealed by Williams ' manager that it was " done as a joke following suggestions it was a stunt which was set up prior to the radio show.

He amazed the cast and crew by doing many of his own stunts, although Thames Television said his increasingly ill health did force the use of a stunt double for some scenes.

Because of these roots and their lower budgets, Hong Kong action films typically center on physical acrobatics, martial arts fight scenes, stylized gun-play, and dangerous stunt work performed by leading stunt actors, while American action films typically feature big explosions, car chases, stunt doubles and CGI special effects technology.

Several myths surround the woman, though it seems the first woman in black was actually a publicity stunt cooked up by press agent Russel Birdwell in 1928.

This was done as a publicity stunt to raise awareness of poor Internet speeds experienced by many rural users.

The latest suit has been viewed as a publicity stunt, although Vonage later settled by altering their packaging and advertising to address the issues in the lawsuit.

Publicity stunt in Salt Lake City, 1910: " Little Hip " the elephant, advertising newspaper & theater.

Loew adopted the practice, which was reported in a wire service story carried by the Lincoln, Nebraska Daily Star, describing it as " an entirely new and unique stunt ", and that " moving pictures of the rehearsals and other incidents connected with the production will be sent out in advance of the show, to be presented to the Loew ’ s picture houses and will take the place of much of the bill board advertising ".

Never escaping his wild side, Safran attained infamy and police attention for a stunt to try and coerce cricketer Shane Warne into breaking a " no smoking " clause in an advertising contract with a nicotine gum manufacturer.

Initial advertising featured a Tempo sedan performing a loop on a stunt track.

In 1983, British advertising agency FCO Univas set up a visual stunt presentation of the strength of Araldite by gluing a yellow Ford Cortina to a billboard on Cromwell Road, London, with the tagline " It also sticks handles to teapots ".

DeLay Aircraft Company advertising cites several of the following movies ( below ) to encourage the glamorous role of stunt aviation for the movies.

He meets Dorothy that night and shows her the second story – it is about a successful advertising stunt in which one out of fifty baskets of fruit sold will contain an imitation necklace.

As a result of the stunt and the ensuing backlash, advertisers American Express, Optus, Qantas and Network Ten pulled their advertising from the 2DayFM morning show.

Not the greatest of commercial successes, it was however fast, and a great stunt bike, winning many track races, endurance rides, and stunt exhibitions, as well as being a great advertising tool for the Smith Machine Co.