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When I am old and thoroughly demented, living in a nursing home, I feel certain I will grab the arm of anyone who passes to tell them about the time I took Michael Cera's virginity. This particular lapse will be forgivable - it may even become a trend among members of 21st century senile generations - because as moviegoers, we will all have been there with him for multiple attempts and some successes...
...Mark Mangino, the consensus national coach of the year at Kansas just two years ago, resigned amid allegations that he mistreated his players. He allegedly poked a player in the chest during an October practice and reportedly told a former player, whose younger brother was once shot in the arm as a child in St. Louis, Mo., that "if you don't shut up, I'm going to send you back to St. Louis so you can get shot with your homies." (Mangino has denied any wrongdoing.) In mid-December, several members of the University of South Florida football team...
...Callahan score some points with government officials who call him a "yanqui imperialista" in public. At a recent private event, Sandinista hard-liner Comandante Bayardo Arce, who's also president of the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League, reportedly practiced some baseball diplomacy of his own with Callahan. "He puts his arm around me and says, in front of all the Sandinistas, 'This is my amigo from baseball - we share the love for the great sport of baseball,' " the ambassador said. However, he added, baseball is the only thing he and the former revolutionary can talk about ... at least politely. "Three minutes...
...same Christmas Eve service in 2008, Maiolo made a similar dash toward Benedict, stopped short that time by Domenico Giani, who heads the Vatican gendarmes, a private police force responsible for protecting the Pope. Giani, who is always within arm's length of the Pope, also helped wrestle away a mentally disturbed German man in 2007 who'd jumped on the Pope's open jeep he uses to circle St. Peter's Square before and after his weekly Wednesday General Audience...
...Duchess and her "adviser" (in both boudoir and boardroom), the glowering Sir John Conroy (Mark Strong), try to strong-arm Victoria into signing over her power to her mother, just in case King William dies before she turns 18. We want her to be Queen so she can finally say, "Off with his head." Conroy is the film's only outright villain, but he's not really much source of tension: once she's Queen, she's the boss. Nor are Lord M. or Lehzen, even though they try to manipulate the young Queen, because this is primarily a love...