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...Billion Dollar Game: Behind the Scenes of the Greatest Day in American Sport By Allen St. John Doubleday; 264 pages...
...cataclysm of joy," said the bohemian from Brooklyn, N.Y. A chance to throw a shoe at President Bush, said the disenchanted Republican. To celebrate the fact that anything is possible, said the Apache from Arizona. Some people brought with them mementos of those who could not come. Jenny Allen, a 38-year-old fundraiser from West Virginia, wore a laminated picture of her great-aunt, an elegant lady in a double strand of pearls who fought for civil rights years ago. "Peggy Ewing Waxter, 1904-2007," Allen said. "She would have loved this day." (See the 10 greatest speeches...
...Rickey Rally - a walk, two stolen bases and a sacrifice fly - was purist baseball at its best. Scoring runs, after all, is baseball's bottom line, and no one's better at it than Rickey." - Allen St. John, sportswriter, Salon.com...
...Anglo-Indian Slumdog Millionaire took four awards: film drama, director (Danny Boyle), screenwriter (Simon Beaufoy) and composer (A.R. Rahman). Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona was named best comedy, ahead of Happy-Go-Lucky and Mamma Mia! WALL-E won for animated feature, while the animated feature Waltz With Bashir was the best foreign language film. (Can't explain; too complicated.) The award for best actor in a drama went to Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler. Kate Winslet snagged both the dramatic actress prize for Revolutionary Road and the supporting actress trophy for The Reader. Ireland's Colin Farrell...
...Foreign Agents If you're keeping score, 10 foreigners won Golden Globe movie awards, compared with just three Americans: Rourke, WALL-E's Andrew Stanton and Allen (who made Vicky Cristina in Spain because he couldn't raise funds to shoot in the States). You could almost hear the muttering of the locals about their hosts: Don't they know they're the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, not the Hollywood Foreign Press Association? Somebody's going to scan the HFPA rolls to determine how many members come from India, and how many from Belgium...