Headless chickens

Updated 10:45 AM EDT, Thu March 21, 2013 View more photos and read the stranger-than-fiction story at Life.com." onload="this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')" onerror="imageLoadError(this)" height="720" width="1280"> Mike the headless chicken — A rooster named Mike lived for 18 months after losing his head in 1945 at a farm in Fruita, Colorado. According to some accounts, the day the ax fell Mike slept with his head under his wing. The story originally ran in an October 1945 issue of Life magazine. View more photos and read the stranger-than-fiction story at Life.com. Bob Landry/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Mike the headless chicken — Mike hangs out with fellow chickens in his Colorado barnyard in 1945. Bob Landry/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Mike the headless chicken — Mike stands atop a lawn mower. Bob Landry/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Mike the headless chicken — A suitcase holds the tools for feeding Mike, including an eye dropper that was used to provide sustenance through the hole where his head used to be. Bob Landry/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Mike the headless chicken — Promoter Hope Wade took Mike on the road in 1945 and charged money for folks to take a look. Bob Landry/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

He’s become one of Spain’s most successful auteur directors of big audience hits. Now director-writer-producer Alex de la Iglesia (“The Day of the Beast,” “30 Coins”) and producing partner, the actor-producer Carolina Bang (“The Last Circus”), have turned to wayward soccer players for their latest TV outing, HBO Max show “Headless Chickens.” The starting point for this upcoming Spanish series is curiosity, Bang explained at an afternoon Q&A session at the Berlinale Series Market on Tuesday scheduled in the Next from Spain strand. “Alex and I don’t like soccer very much but we have a lot of curiosity about the industry,” said Bang. “You have a lot of young people that became very rich very quickly. It destroys your head.” Indeed, a teaser for “Headless Chickens” featured a beautiful footballer parading in a big, white fluffy coat through a nightclub with women falling at his feat. The swagger was amusing. Popular on Variety “It’s a comedy about the world of soccer,” added Iglesia who says the release date will soon be announced. In approaching his projects, Iglesia keeps his audience in mind. “The most important thing is to think about cinema. All the things we are doing have some relationship to the cinema,” said Iglesia. And he knows how to create tension. “I understand the world of these kinds of people. It’s fun to lose some respect for big soccer players and put them in the real world,” he said. “Our intention is to laugh. We don’t want to offend anyone. But not hide a reality either.” Also taking part in the panel was the executive producer Rodrigo Ruiz- Gallardon, from Banijay Iberia, who talked about the development of the series.. “At the beginning, it was going to be about more characters, but then we focused on Hugo. He’s a

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