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With 30 seconds left in the game, a fightnearly broke out involving Adams and Steve Moore.B.C. defenseman Bobby Allen kept shoving Mooreafter the whistle in an attempt to provoke him,but Moore wisely kept his temper and only shoved alittle back. All players involved received minorpenalties...
...series' final scene is its saddest and wisest. On Delacroix Island, at the mouth of the Mississippi, we meet Irvan and Allen Perez, two cousins who belong to the Islenos, a Spanish-speaking people who first settled in Louisiana 200 years ago. The Perezes are fishermen. As they work, they sing slow, bittersweet a cappella songs called decimas--10-stanza numbers, mostly in Spanish, that tell the stories of their lives and communities. They sing of shrimp boats and muskrat trappers, bad weather and home mortgages. Their voices are piercing and pure. Allen sings...
...mournful song but stubbornly hopeful. His performance reminds the listener that American music is broad and big, like a river, and it keeps flowing. Pop music suddenly seems like just a glass of tap water. Allen's song is one you'll probably never hear on the radio, never see performed on TV--except on River of Song. How much other water is unexplored? Tune in to this series and drink deep...
...vignettes), takes on the classic Ellis topic: the amoral world. This time, that world is not just New York (as in American Psycho) or Los Angeles (The Informers, Less Than Zero) but that of international celebrity, taking in the glitterati axis of New York-London-Paris which Woody Allen has visited recently, but more lightheartedly--in contrast, Ellis is cold, cold, cold...
...there was, like, a lot of red dye around, the result would have been Mark McGwire. He's deeply devoted to his son and his charity for sexually abused children. He's been going to a therapist every week since 1991, and plans on continuing long after Woody Allen is cured. Why not, he explains, if it helps him? And why shouldn't his ex-wife hug him after his record-breaking home run? "No divorce is ever peachy keen. But Kathy and I are two grown adults," he says--not only the largest man to say peachy keen...