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...Rosenberg, the rooms serve to symbolize and accentuate the comic absurdity on the screen. For example, the parents of the twin brothers, who loathe each other after 30 years of marriage, are staying in the sports stadium room. Astro-turf on the floor, a referee signaling a goal, and the crowds painted on the walls peering down on the contest below -- all highlight the spectacle of their raucous disputes...
...role belongs to the hotel itself. Inspired by a Niagara Falls honeymoon hotel, the Hotel de Love features outrageously creative "theme" rooms such as the "Garden of Eden" room, complete with tree, forbidden fruit and serpent, and the "The Grand Finale Passion Suite," modeled after a cricket stadium with astro-turf and recordings of cheering crowds. The rooms nearly steal every scene in which they appear...
...worked to keep a disappointment from becoming a catastrophe. Ron Howard's film pays tribute to the signal and endangered American virtues of individual ingenuity and team spirit. "It gives credit where a great amount of credit has been forgotten," says Tom Hanks, the exemplary Hollywood star and former astro-nut teen who realized a dream of his own by playing Lovell. "Launching men into space is a fantastic undertaking, which very few people today seem to appreciate. It's ironic that we made a movie about a mission that was a 'failure,' because it's probably the best celebration...
...precious few minutes this morning, the space shuttle Endeavor became part of the Internet. Since its record 16-day mission began last Thursday, several hundred thousand E-mailed questions have poured into NASA's "Astro-2" site on the World Wide Web, but only three have made it past the space agency's sorters so far. "Why did they schedule the liftoff for 2 a.m.?" asked Thomas Maier, Jr. of Decatur, Ga. "I like to watch and it is past my bedtime. I am 9 years old you see." Crew member Tammy Jernigan, up at 5 a.m. EST, replied that...
...September 1991 Padre hitting coach Merv Rettenmund said of young Astro shortstop Andujar Cedeno, "I hate him, but I'd love to have him." Rettenmund meant that Cedeno was raw and erratic but had remarkable tools: a live bat, a great arm, terrific range. Cedeno, now 24, has matured, and it shows. Through Sunday he was hitting .329 with five homers. . . . One of the best free-agent signings of the off-season was White Sox DH Julio Franco, who has been hitting cleanup. He had 24 RBIs through Sunday and had made it tough for pitchers to work around...