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...there are specialty shops all over the city. As far as getting work, it was pretty much me schlepping around town giving any manager who would give me a minute tapes of me spinning. I happened to get lucky and get the gig at Axis right off the bat in 1990, which makes it about nine years that I have been here, which is pretty lucky. It's a pretty long run for a club DJ to be at one club...
...character to marry her, and it works; Brom ends up marrying her in the book. But in the movie, it's not this gawky gangly guy, it's Johnny Depp. And she kinda goes: Johnny Depp or Casper Van Dien... Johnny! She didn't even bat...
...players might be forgiven a little cockiness, having just returned from a tour in which they played on hallowed cricket grounds in London. They dropped in on peace talks in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and presented a cricket bat to Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams. ("It's a little like presenting a menorah to Saddam Hussein," Haber says.) And they took tea at Windsor Castle with Prince Edward. In a landmark moment of cultural exchange, they performed The Hip-Hop Cricket Rap for His Royal Highness. Says Hayes: "I don't think they'd ever seen or heard the likes...
...oldest member of the Mayflower Club. Trevor Roper, 47, captain of the Mayflower Club, says he and his British mates "weren't used to all the cheering" and high-five gyrations coming from the newest team in the league. Says Roper: "At first they'd toss a bat in frustration, but they've learned respect...
Patkin would take an at-bat against the pitcher while he warmed up, hitting a pre-arranged lob and then running to third base where he was thrown out. He would argue the call, doing his best Earl Weaver imitation by throwing his hat around and kicking dirt onto...