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...Beverly Garland, 82, played it steely in '50s B movies (she starred in five early Roger Corman cheapies), then sweet as Fred MacMurray's wife on My Three Sons. A cut-rate Barbara Stanwyck, she deserved better scripts than she got. In Edgar G. Ulmer's meat-B noir classic Detour (1945), Ann Savage, 87, invested her sharp features and scraping-chalk voice in, unquestionably, the harshest, most conniving bitch in movie history. More than 60 years later, Guy Maddin cast her as another harridan-hellion - his mother - in the recent "docu-fantasia" My Winnipeg...
...came to be in Obama's office in early 2005, giving the new Senator a "wave top" briefing on Russia, Africa and NATO's troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The conversation lasted an hour. Jones impressed Obama with his "broad view of U.S. national-security interests, from classic military power to training missions, energy security and diplomacy," says an aide who attended the briefing. Obama struck Jones as a "very, very good listener...
...classic tale of Chicago politics involves a young man eager to plunge into a Democratic campaign. The skeptical ward boss asks who sent him. "We don't want nobody that nobody sent," he snarls...
...Harvard women’s basketball team ended the Women of Troy Basketball Classic in Los Angeles with two losses. The two losses, though, could not have been more different. On Dec. 19, the Crimson (7-6) went down 54-49 to a Siena team that it had beaten by 23 points just three weeks earlier.The Saints scored the last nine points of the game to take the win and ensure a miserable night for Harvard.“We could not have played worse against Siena,” Crimson coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said...
...first, respectively, but both faltered late in the draw.The third-seeded Caputo rode a technical fall, a major decision, and a 4-2 victory to earn a semifinal matchup with Iowa’s Phil Keddy, who handed Caputo his first loss this season at the NWCA All-Star Classic on Nov. 25.The Hawkeye junior took his second in a row against Caputo with a 6-3 decision on Monday.The Havard grappler bounced back in time to overtake eighth-seeded Jerome Ward of Iowa State in the wrestleback bracket, but came up short in the third-place bout, falling...