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...Vaux moves on to TinTin and the Real World. "Have you ever heard of TinTin? It's a Belgian cartoon from the '20s to the '70s. People used to tease him for his haircut -it was sort of smooth but stuck up in the front-but now everyone has that haircut. TinTin is marginal in the U.S., but for some reason he's been a popular subject for French intellectuals. They have many, many books on him--one says he's a drunk, one says he and Captain Haddock, his companion, are lovers, and several claim the author, Herge...
...Crowe has been smoking--and acting--since childhood. At age six he did his first TV gig. His parents, who migrated from New Zealand to Australia when he was four, catered TV and film sets in between running pubs, which is where he picked up smoking. In his 20s, he toured and sang (and smoked) with his own band, which still performs as 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. By 30, he had 10 films to his credit Down Under, most notably 1992's Romper Stomper, in which he played a psycho skinhead. Sharon Stone brought him to Hollywood...
...October 1978. I was six years old and my father made a family announcement that was bigger than winning the lottery: WORLD SERIES TICKETS! For pint-sized Yankees fans in the late '70s (or the late '90s, the '60s, '50s, '40s, '30s or '20s) the Yankees were an introduction to all of the greatest things in life - heroes, triumph, unconditional love. And, perhaps above all, they were a chance to feel invincible. Our seats were about 20 rows behind home plate, a perfect vantage point to see the giants of October. Reggie Jackson hitting the ball into the stratosphere. Goose...
...coxswain is constantly telling us when a buoy is coming up under our riggers, which is annoying as hell, but I guess it beats unexpectedly hitting a buoy that throws off your stroke. After launching off their wobbly plastic docks, we went upstream to the starting line doing some 20s at 3/4 pressure, 22 and 28 strokes per minute. Then we turned around and headed back down doing some 20s at 3/4 slide to get the rate up: 34, then 38. Finally a couple starting sequence pieces: five, ten, and ten strokes at full pressure before taking the boat...
...cost of food and lodging at the work camp only $125 a person, the Kraussers spent less than $1,000 for their two weeks. The Greek group leader often sauteed calamari for a treat at lunch, which was the main meal, and the seven other campers, all in their 20s and from Holland, France, Crete and Britain, shared recipes. Everyone ate together at a large table under a shade tree in front of the little school. When the Kraussers weren't wearing shorts and T shirts, they were in swimsuits. After four hours' work under the blazing morning sun, they...