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...staying power, provided enough heart-tugging drama for a Billy Crystal TV movie by crushing a home run in his final bow at an All-Star game. Grown men wept as the room-service fastball, served up by Chan Ho Park, landed beyond the left-field fence. For comic relief, TOMMY LASORDA took a flying baseball bat off his hip while coaching third base, wobbled over and popped right back up like the giant, adorable Weeble he is. "I feel great," Lasorda proclaimed. Feeling great is better than looking great...
...charities close to Uys' heart, like Wola Nani, a refuge for HIV-positive teenage mothers. Next year, he plans to add a further 400 schools to the 160 he has already visited. Before then, he will take Foreign Aids to the Netherlands and possibly to New York. His comic treatment of a deadly serious subject has not escaped criticism, but Uys is unrepentant. "If just one child remembers something that will save his life, that's got to be worth it." Q&A Q: A comedy about AIDS? What's so funny about a virus for which there...
...only disappointment readers of the comic may feel is that director and co-writer Terry Zwigoff (who last did "Crumb," about the underground comix master) turns the focus of the movie more on Enid and her emerging relationship with Seymour rather than the girls' friendship. The book enjoys its reputation primarily for the uncanny naturalness and intimacy of the two girls' banter as they constantly affirm each other with "I know," or refer to each other's past history with questions like "Isn't that the thing David Lipton gave you in the fifth grade?" Much of the book...
...Likewise, Zwigoff has changed the look of "Ghost World" from a slate-blue monochrome to full color. While this sacrifices the melancholy, "ghostly" tone of the comic, it also allows for sharper contrasts between the garish, fluorescent world of fake fifties diners and multiplexes vs. the velvety tones of Enid and Seymour's cluttered bedrooms. Director of photography Affonso Beato makes the most of highlighting how ghastly America's commercial spaces and their inhabitants have become. "Look at all these creeps," Enid squeals with delight as she enters the sunless world of an "adult" videostore...
...rankyourcollege.com stands as a comic warning to the hundreds of thousands of crazed college-bound high schoolers, and college administrations who value too highly “the fraud of media based rankers,” he says...