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ORDINARY
EXTRAORDINARY, a new entertainment
special hosted by John Ritter and Leanza
Cornett, celebrates the human spirit with
inspirational stories and accounts of
amazing feats accomplished by ordinary
people, Friday May 2 (9:00 - 10:00 PM,
ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
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Among the
inspirational accounts of ordinary people
who by choice or by chance have been
thrust into extraordinary situations, is
the story of Ahad Israfil, a young man
from Dayton Ohio, who is a medical
marvel, having survived after losing
nearly half his brain in an accidental
shooting. Ahad underwent radical brain
surgery during which doctors miraculously
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reconstructed
his skull to conceal the caved-in section
of his head.The
program offered an amazing in-studio
performance of an Extreme Games bicycle
champ performing a never-before-attempted
stunt in which he speeds down a 40-foot
ramp and does two complete back flips on
his bike directly over the heads of the
audience members.
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Other notable
stories featured in the special ranged
from the heartwarming to the
heart-stopping including:Daredevils who turn ordinary
skydiving into "skydriving" by
sitting in cars dropped from an airplane.
Mountain bikers who
race their $20,000 aerodynamic
"bicycle bullets," modified
from ordinary
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mountain bikes,
down snowy mountain tops at speeds of
more than 100 miles per hour.Fan Yang, the bubble man,
who creates amazing bubble sculptures by
using only ordinary soap and water.
An extraordinary
Dalmatian who rides an ordinary bicycle.
ORDINARY/
EXTRAORDINARY, filmed in
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the Disney-MGM
Studios, is an LMNO Production. Eric
Schotz and Bill Paolantonio are the
executive producers and writers; Scott
Messick is the supervising producer; and
Morris Abraham, the director.
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