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Coburn beats back tough disease

James Coburn has made some 80 movies and has never been nominated for an acting award.

James Coburn
'Affliction': James Coburn donned padding and a putty nose to play Nick Nolte's abusive father in the film opening Wednesday (Lions Gate Films).

But the tough, sexy guy from Our Man Flint and The Magnificent Seven opens Wednesday in Affliction, and the film already has Oscar buzz.

Coburn, who plays Nick Nolte's beefy, alcoholic, abusive father, says that these days "it's rare you get a script that has any real meaning."

In fact, after four decades in the business, Coburn sums up moviemaking today like this: "They've been trying to get rid of the actor and they've finally managed to do it. They've come up with ants, bugs and pigs to sell — and the audience is buying it."

But he's not as cranky as he sounds. The Affliction experience was a good one, complete with putty nose and lots of padding to turn him into his cantankerous, bloated character. "That's what we do," he says happily.

It was also enjoyable because he was not in pain. In 1990, he could barely walk because of rheumatoid arthritis. "I was really sick with it for a long time — until I stopped seeing doctors," he chuckles. But he's serious.

"Doctors want to give you drugs and keep you on 'em. I wanted to get to the root of the problem."

So he started reading everything he could find on rheumatoid arthritis, went on a 15-day fast and did high colonics daily. "That started the cure. It's an insidious immune disease. The body works against itself. It extracts calcium from your bones and puts it in your muscles."

But for almost 10 years, he says, "moving was always painful. Standing was really troublesome." The only relief? He laughs: "When you're working and having sex."

A friend came over to his Beverly Hills house every day for 10 months and gave him a deep tissue massage, and he discovered a man who had an electromagnetic machine, which worked wonders by stimulating the immune system, he says. But it wasn't approved by the FDA, so now he visits the man and the machine periodically in England for treatment.

Finally, Coburn found MSM. "Methylsulfonylmethane, a dietary sulfur," he says. "It really, really does the job. It's non-toxic, totally, and it stops the pain."

Coburn figures the illness took its toll on his career. "But now I'm working again and it's more fun now than ever."

Five years ago he married Paula Murad (a 20-year marriage to Beverly Kelly that produced son James Coburn Jr. ended in 1979). His health regimen includes hiking 3 miles every other day and "trying not to eat the same thing more than twice every eight days," he says.

He's considering playing Merlin in a movie he's producing called Mists of Avalon, and he reteamed with Mel Gibson (they did Maverick together in 1994) for a film called Payback, due Feb. 5.

In August, he turned 70 and had a big party. How did it feel?

"I felt like I was 16," he growls and laughs. "I got a few kicks left."

By Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY 
© Copyright 1998 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.

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