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After filming ended, I had one more movie-making adventure. The other production assistants were making an experimental short and asked if I'd like to be in it. I agreed. A week later I found myself on the Venice boardwalk in a purple grape costume. Giant purple foam cantaloupe-sized grapes cocooned me, long sleeves and past my knees. Tourists asked if they could take my picture, and a few new pick-up lines floated by: "Can I squeeze your grapes?" One of my high school teachers walked by, barely surprised to see me dancing in my grapes...
...Bryants have grown more and more alone in voicing opposition in the year and a half since Mirage casino mogul Steve Wynn said he would build a Las Vegas-style extravaganza a mile from the Boardwalk in Atlantic City's Marina district. The women do have Donald Trump--that renowned champion of the little guy--on their team. How could so many politicians bend over backward to please an out-of-town money changer? asks the man who would be in direct competition with Wynn. Oh, the hypocrisy! But even Donald has been trumped. Seven of the 10 homeowners...
Here, in a boardwalk caricature, comes the current American dilemma: How much prosperity is too much? This was an easy town to get rich in if you timed things right. But those blessings now carry burdens. The townsfolk have gone from acquiring wealth to managing it--knowing when to cut the right deal and let other ones go by. At Bunting's English Diner, where Mayor Jim Mathias and three of his predecessors gather early to sort through the day's problems, they like to recall how simple it used to be. Back in the '30s, when their fathers came...
Jacket copy for The Tenth Justice promises "dialogue as true as it is sharp-witted." But sure enough, by page four, a superior is telling our hero Ben Addison, "You are the hottest property on the board. You're Boardwalk and Park Place...
Harvard and Princeton are monopolizing the Ivy's top honors like a hotel on Boardwalk Avenue. For the second straight week, a Tiger was the Player of the Week (Amy MacFarlane last week, Hale this time), and a Crimson freshman was named Rookie of the Week...