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Filmmaker Ari Sandel on Jack Palance doing one-armed push ups - 64th Annual Academy Awards®....more.
Jack Palance does One-Armed Push Ups after receiving the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 'City Slickers' at the 64th Oscars in 1992. Watch t...
Jack Palance winning an Oscar® - Best Supporting Actor, City Slickers - 64th Annual Academy Awards®.
Jack Palance's Workout 1991 - While accepting his Supporting Actor award for his role as cowboy Curly in CITY SLICKERS, Jack Palance showed off his physical fitness (at the age of 73!) by doing one-armed push-ups on the stage.
[Does three one-arm push-ups on stage; returns to podium.] That's nothing, really. As far as the two-handed push-ups are concerned, you can do that all night and it doesn't make any difference whether she's there or not.
At the age of 72, nearly forty years after his last Oscar nomination, Palance won it in 1992 for his role in "City Slickers" as Curly Washburn, a spoof of his tough Westerner image. Upon...
At age 84, Jack Palance still likes to show he can do a set of push-ups. In Scottsdale, Ariz., to be honored at the Festival of the West, Palance dropped to the ground before a small group in a hotel lobby, recalling the one-armed push-ups he did at age 71 during his 1991 Oscar acceptance speech for "City Slickers."
Finding renewed success late in his career, Palance picked up the award after a memorable performance as cowboy Curly Washburn alongside Billy Crystal. Palance's time on stage was unforgettable for all the right reasons… and even had a demonstration of one armed push-ups.
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He then dropped to the floor and demonstrated his ability, at the age of 73, to perform one-armed push-ups. The audience loved the moment as host Crystal turned it into a running gag.