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第一篇 A Life with Birds 有鸟陪伴 have a fight for real. The Spanish actor
的生活 wasn't keen on the idea at first, but he
For nearly 17 years David Cope has was eventually persuaded by his co-star to
worked as one of the Tower of London's put on his gloves and climb into the boxing
yeoman warders, better known to tourists ring. However, when he realized how
as beefeaters. David, 64, lives in a seriously his opponent was taking it all,
three-bedroomed flat right at the top of he began to regret his decision to fight.
the Byward Tower, one of the gatehouses. And then in the third round, Harrelson hit
" From our bedroom we have a marvellous Banderas so hard in the face that he
view of Tower Bridge and the Thames, " says actually broke his nose. His wife, actress
David. Melanie Griffith, was furious that he had
The Tower of London is famous for its been playing "silly macho games". "She was
ravens, the large black birds which have right," confesses Banderas, "and I was a
lived there for over three centuries. fool to take a risk like that in the middle
David was immediately fascinated by the of a movie."
birds and when he was offered the post of He was reminded of the time he broke his
Raven Master eight years ago he had no leg during a football match in his native
hesitation in accepting it. "The birds Malaga. He had always dreamed of
have now e my life and I'm always ing a er star, of performing in
aware of the fact that I am maintaining a front of a big crowd, but doctors told him
tradition. The legend says that if the his playing days were probably over.
ravens leave the Tower, England will fall "That's when I decided to take up acting;
to enemies, and it's my job to make sure I saw it as another way of performing, and
this doesn't happen!" achieving recognition. What happened to me
David devotes about four hours a day on that football pitch was, you might say,
to the care of the ravens. He has grown to