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Bobby, however, did not lack the machismo to rise up from the slum in Brooklyn where he grew up. Bobby is known today as one of the best recruiters (if not the best game coaches) in college basketball, and one of the hardest workers. He has sent a countless number of players to the NBA, including Mark Price, John Salley, Tom Hammonds, Dennis Scott, Travis Best and Kenny Anderson, among others...
...YEARS AGO, RANDY ENOS WAS A cook in Brooklyn, making $10 an hour. Then he and the mother of his son Joshua split up, and Randy's own mother died. He felt a terrible void and decided to move. A restaurant-association hot line touted jobs in California, so Randy packed up Josh and went there. But the jobs didn't materialize, at least not at $10 an hour. Randy ended up washing cars at a garage in Glendale. As the work was seasonal, he got behind on his rent and one day received an eviction notice. "The scariest part...
...original 1977 demo tape, widely available on bootleg cassette, Lennon prefaces the tune by announcing, in the terse gutturals of a Brooklyn gangster, "Free. As a boid.'' That larkish spirit, absent in the new version, abounds on the two-CD album The Beatles Anthology (Apple/Capitol)--60 tracks of the group's compositions, cover recordings, outtakes, TV skits and reminiscences...
...Niro plays Ace Rothstein, a Jewish odds maker so successful in Brooklyn that he is sent to run the massive Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas. Now that they are legal, his talents are even more impressive; Ace's stoic and calculated methods are a thrill to watch...
...passionate heart of the book remains the early Brooklyn years, with its accounts of fractious religious sects, wonder rabbis, drug pushers in yarmulkes selling "jointelehs," and the Jewish Press warning of a holocaust of assimilation while it supports a fund drive to circumcise Jews secretly in Russia. Why does Halevi's Borough Park jump with life while his Jerusalem seems strangely sedate? The answer can be found partly in a pithy line he wrote about his father's generation: "Where you came from is more important than where...