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...follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N." That edict has nurtured McConaughey from his early prominence, in the John Grisham drama A Time to Kill, through some ragged adventure sagas (the arid Sahara) to a welcome cameo as Ben Stiller's agent in Tropic Thunder. As McConaughey scholar (and my niece) Diana White tells me, he's more than the sum of dimples and muscles. But anybody can be an actor; it's tough to be an icon. McConaughey sustains his status by bantering effortlessly with Jay Leno, spoofing himself in a Sex & the City...
...hero's reckless powers. In Wolverine it's a U.S. Army colonel, Stryker (Danny Huston), who recruits the Howlett boys for his top-secret platoon of misfits, each with a special skill. The dirty half-dozen includes, to ID them by their nicknames, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), Gambit (Taylor Kitsch), Agent Zero (Daniel Henney), Bolt (Dominic Monaghan) and the Blob (Kevin Durand). Logan, sensing Stryker's evil-genius motives, is reluctant to join the gang. "Your country needs you," Stryker pleads, to which Logan replies, "I'm Canadian." A misfit again...
Yesterday’s announcement that senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti and senior defensive end Desmond Bryant were going to the New York Jets and Oakland Raiders, respectively, as undrafted free agent signees got me thinking about the current state of the Ivy League in the NFL.Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not delusional. I know Ivy League football pales in comparison to top tier conferences, but something has to be said for the fact that the Ivies are the only conference in the football championship subdivision (FCS) to have a player from each school...
...left the New York Mets after the 1990 season as a free agent, and signed with your hometown Los Angeles Dodgers. How did that decision impact your career? It was nightmare. I was accustomed to the atmosphere in New York. I was accustomed to playing under the pressure. I was accustomed to people yelling and booing when you weren't playing well. I thought it would be great to go home to California. It's baseball, but it's not intensity baseball. It's more laid back. The fans come late and leave early. I was like...
INDICTED The U.S. Justice Department charged Luis Posada Carriles, 81, a Cuban exile and former CIA agent, with crimes including perjury for his involvement in two 1997 bombings in Cuba...