Word: bench
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mike Aldrete will see some big at bats in this series off the bench for the Yankees...
...Fathers. Turow's handling of the courtroom scenes and legal intricacies remains several cuts above the popular competition, including the creator of Perry Mason. Trial buffs, their numbers swollen by O.J. and Court TV, will find plenty to chew over here, such as Sonny's private ruminations on the bench about hearsay testimony: "The reporters and onlookers seem baffled by the arcana of the rule which allows a witness to testify about what someone said she would be doing in the future but not what she said she'd just done in the past...
...even up top, the bench seating is so uncomfortable that there are only three options for snoozing: Folding your hands on the first-row banister and resting your head there, slouching down until your knees hit the back of the seat in front of you or simply lying down on a bench...
...Story opens with two people from two different worlds encountering each other in a New York City park. Peter (Jason Mills), a publishing executive, is looking forward to spending a relaxing Sunday afternoon reading on his park bench. He does not anticipate meeting Jerry (Paul Siemans), who proceeds to spend the next hour dramatically changing Peter's outlook on life...
Mills' role as Peter is mostly to react to Jerry, but he does this well. It is easy to see in Mills' face how Peter passes from amused to shocked to visibly shaken as Jerry narrates the story of his life. Curled on the park bench, shaking from, it seems, both laughter and tears as a result of Jerry's stories, Peter's very straight, conventional outlook has been destroyed...