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Mandes, he adds, is headed for “a breakout year” and could join Du and Maki among the team’s top scorers. Classmates Justin Tobe, a goalie, and two-sport star Brendan Byrne—a .326-hitting regular on the varsity baseball squad last season—will provide their share of valuable minutes...
...home [last year],” Walsh says. “I think he led the team in posts and crossbars. But he’s come back and he’s looked a lot stronger, too, and I think he’s ready to have a breakout year...
...chest, but this antiquated metaphor of military praise hardly seems adequate for Anthony Swofford’s breakout autobiography “Jarhead.” The novel, written by a Californian and a New York Times bestseller in 2003, should have garnered a little more respect from its native hive, The Sacramento Bee. Enter Sam Mendes, famed director of “American Beauty” and “Road to Perdition.” Mendes and screenwriter William Broyles, Jr. have produced a vivid, accurate representation of Swofford’s book, which opens this Friday?...
...Football is so much fun to me,” Balkema says. “I love what I’m doing, so it’s easy to get in that mindset.”That mindset has helped immensely this year. To call this season a breakout year would be a gross understatement, considering that the past three years saw Balkema amass a total of just 24 tackles, compared to 40 this year with three games still to play. A career-high 13 of them came against Dartmouth last weekend. His three sacks against the Big Green...
European cinemagoers may not know Marilou Berry's name, but they will find her face uncannily familiar. The look-alike daughter of France's legendary comic actress Josiane Balasko is lighting up the silver screen herself these days. In two breakout roles last year, she wowed the critics. One of them, her bittersweet performance in Look at Me, earned a nomination for Most Promising Actress at the César awards, France's version of the Oscars. Now, in the just-opened film Once Upon a Time in the Oued, she's winning plaudits for her role as a headstrong...