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Today, I am reminded of Ken Burns' baseball documentary. He interviews former Negro-leaguer Buck O'Neil, who remembers how he once heard this special crack of the bat as a youngster. He looked over at the batter, and it was Babe Ruth...
Right off the bat, Anderson confirms the rumors, and not without a modicum of enthusiasm. He's more than happy to tell me that a Reubens show is in the works, and that the show will probably be a half-hour sitcom. At the earliest, it would be a 1997 -'98 mid-season replacement, he offers, but he can't say much beyond logistics. He explains that "the project is in its embryonic stages," and as much as he'd like to tell me more about it, at this point there's very little...
Summertime and the living is easy...back of my neck getting dirty and gritty...oooo macarena! Let's admit one thing right off the bat: summer has changed, and not just because we're no longer 11 years old and looking forward to three months' worth of unadulterated goofing off, give or take a summer-school session or a stint at an overly rigorous sleep-away camp making lanyards for The Man. Once upon a time, for kids and adults alike, the season's operative word was languor; today it's grosses. Because summer itself, like the movies to which...
Indeed UCLA is enjoying one of the best seasons in the program's history, largely off the bat of power-hitting shortstop Troy Glaus...
...When my sisters and I were young, my mother, who is of Russian Jewish decent, and my father, who is a Seventh-Day Adventist from Jamaica, made the mutual decision to raise the three of us in the Jewish faith. I attended Hebrew school for years, and became a bat mitzvah at age 13. I continue to observe the Jewish holidays and consider Judaism to be a central aspect of my personal identity...