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Junior Todd Schulte and co-captain Alex Fisher each had multiple-goal games. Schulte notched two in the first 14 minutes, while Fisher had a goal in both halves...
Smith and Redd both know disappointment. Smith reports that Bob Barker is far from the hot elderly man his TV appearances might suggest. Instead, she claims, he is “a little on the deathly pale side.” Redd encountered a similar problem with Alex Trebek. “Trebek is a dirty old man! He flirted a little with one of the girls competing and told a lot of jokes about his ex-wife,” he says...
...want some-thing more high powered, try Casio's Exilim EX-S2 ($300), available later this month. It's the size of a credit card and almost as thin, but it has digital zoom and 2-megapixel resolution. And if you're looking for the total Alex Trebek looks-and-brains package, splurge on Canon's PowerShot S230 ($499), also out in October. It's a full-featured, 3.2-megapixel camera with adjustable shutter speed and both optical and digital zoom. Plus, it's so easy to use, even a supermodel can figure it out. --By Lev Grossman
...succeeds anyway, through the ecstatic inventiveness of Smith's prose. Her characters don't give thumbs-up; they make the "International Gesture for well-being." Like Martin Amis, she has sympathy for her comically debauched characters and mints turns of phrase the way the government mints pennies, as when Alex wanders into a bar "to have a drink, maybe drinks, maybe drinkseses." And she has a feel for the peculiarly male, geeky world of collectordom. But while she finds myriad arresting ways to say celebrity is a modern religion--"All fandom is a form of tunnel vision: warm and dark...
...weren’t able to put them away. We just weren’t playing very aggressively,” co-captain Alex Fisher said. “[However,] we never felt the game was in real jeopardy...