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...Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz are back. Three times before--with thirtysomething, My So-Called Life and Relativity--they and the team of intensely loyal writers who make up the production company Bedford Falls have explored the quiet dramas of ordinary life. Their latest effort, starring the winsome duo of Sela Ward and Billy Campbell, is, like its predecessors, a smart, angsty and intimate reflection of its creators' aesthetic and personal concerns...
When the crew of the Escort and the Dorado reunited this week in New Bedford in the appropriately named Davey's Locker restaurant, the rescued men came bearing gifts for the Dorado crew--and three cases of Red Stripe beer...
Rock knows about hard work and hard times. He was born in Georgetown, S.C., and grew up in a poor part of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. His dad (who died in 1988) worked as a truck driver for the New York Daily News; his mom was a schoolteacher (she now runs a day-care center). Rock was bused from his black neighborhood in Bed-Stuy to a white high school in Bensonhurst. He says the students there were "worse than white trash--they were white toxic waste," and would beat him up regularly. Funny thing was, even though...
...politics, in part, by pounding his head against the wall of campaign-finance reform. So far, his efforts have been thwarted by his Republican colleagues in Congress. But this week McCain will launch the battle from a different perch, in a campaign speech at the old town hall in Bedford, N.H., the state holding the first presidential primary...
...Bedford, along with Nantucket, which isaccessible by ferry from Woods Hole ($25 roundtrip on Bonanza), were the two largest whalingports in the United states before the decline ofthe industry in the second half of the 19thcentury...