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...Which is how a pair of my boxer shorts ended up in the garbage pail instead of the laundry basket," he wrote. "See, I was so caught up in pondering whether the lawn should get another dose of Weed & Feed that I lifted the lid on the garbage pail thinking it was our laundry basket. It was only an hour or so later, when I went to discard some peach peelings, that I saw my boxers there on the top of the heap...
...patriarch who was more than six times her age. He died not long ago, after Koola was born, a father at last. Until Binti came along, no female had interested him. Fame and oodles of fan mail have not changed her. For example, Binti shared a 25-lb. gift basket of bananas with all the zoo's inhabitants. After all, a gal has to watch her figure...
...keep us distracted, Mary Kay Place has a hilarious turn as the eminently calm and collected adult (further skewing things). As she repeatedly declares that she has never been wrong ("Knock on wood..."), we realize that if she were just a tad overdone she could well be a secret basket case. She delivers several of the most memorable lines of the movie, lecturing to her "captors," as she calls them while serving them her signature culinary creation, known simply and ominously as "Hot Dish...
...friend asks her to play basketball for the school. She has no female role models for this, so James Worthy, the Los Angeles Laker star, becomes her role model. "I loved James," she says, "because he was the player other players would go to when they needed a basket." Senior year in high school she scores 101 points in one game. In a single half. She learns how to dunk. She is signed by Wilhelmina Models. She is named to the U.S. Olympic team. And now Lisa Leslie is a role model...
...swim team one more time, and is headed to her third Olympics. "And last!" she says, laughing. "That's it, finished!" Next year she's going to law school. She's going to get serious about running and try the Los Angeles Marathon just for fun. (A basket of ripe sweat socks to the reader who guesses how close to the women's marathon record of 2:21.06 she will clock on her first try; the guess here is 2:32.) Maybe, she says, she'll try some journalism; communications was her major at the University of Southern California...