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...more like a desert. He couldn't afford the $500 to buy his own horn. "There weren't too many gigs coming my way," he remembers. To practice, he had to borrow an old instrument a friend was using to hold flowers. At night he slept in the backseat...
...decades the powerful New York baseball press has engaged in what James calls "a Rizzuto Exaltathon." By now the "Holy Cow!" boy is better known for the sprung poetry of his patter on Yankees TV broadcasts -- and for his call of "backseat petting" on Meat Loaf's hit song Paradise by the Dashboard Light -- than for his great-field, great-bunt playing days. But even then, James persuasively argues, he didn't have the numbers or the earned renown of Pee Wee Reese, a Hall of Famer, or of George Davis and Vern Stephens, who are faint memories...
...unmarked cars. They split into a sniper team with scopes, a negotiating team and a larger backup team that fanned out through the bushes and trees around the property, armed with stun grenades and automatic rifles. When Cowling drove up into the driveway, they could see O.J. in the backseat, holding a blue steel revolver pointed up against his own chin...
...their hands. What do you talk about before a killing? (Fast food in Amsterdam.) How do you escape a fate worse than death? (With luck and honor.) How do you date your gang boss's wife? (Very carefully.) How do you remove those telltale blood stains from the backseat? (Very quickly.) Spinning delirious variations on familiar film noir conventions and pulling career-best performances from < Travolta, Willis, Thurman and especially Jackson as a Bible-spouting sociopath, Tarantino makes a smart, fatal movie. It's Die Hard with a brain...
Juan and Jose settle into the backseat. "At least they got good music," Jose says appreciatively as hip-hop plays on the radio. The van rapidly fills with captives. "We've got two more right here," says Krajeski, zeroing in on a pair of loitering targets. "Look, they're smiling already." Minutes later, a girl in the back catches sight of a passing youth and shouts, "Hey! That's Anthony!" The van slows obligingly, and Krajeski calls out, "Come over here, Anthony." The startled kid climbs aboard. Soon after, two high school sweethearts, draped over each other and oblivious...