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FROM CARACAS WITH LOVE
All brooding good looks and coiled energy, the enigmatic actor Edgar Ramirez is making his presence felt.
The mood at the climbing gym in Manhattan's Chelsea Piers is monastic, cerebral. Classical music fills the cathedral-like space, and athletes study plastic holds bolted to walls as if they are math equations or abstract art. "There's no ego in climbing," explains the actor Edgar Ramirez, dressed in black shorts and a gray T-shirt, his hair attractively tousled. "It's very, very meditative."
Agile and restless, Ramirez is a new convert to the sport, having trained for the vertiginous climbing scenes in Point Break, one of which was shot on a narrow rock nicknamed "the diving board" that juts 3,200 feet in the air over Venezuela's Angel Falls. The film, Kathryn Bigelow's...