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...legions of elite athletes like Simpson, California remains the land of upward mobility. The state has produced legions of homegrown sports stars (sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner, high diver Greg Louganis, slugger Darryl Strawberry) and has polished the skills of legions more who moved to California to train (swimmer Janet Evans, decathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, volleyball player Karch Kiraly). From title-winning ice skaters (Debi Thomas) to record-setting long jumpers (Mike Powell), from Olympic champion swimmers (Matt Biondi) to gold-medal skiers (Bill Johnson), California is the American sports machine. Nearly 30% of the U.S. athletes at the 1988 Summer...
Uses of Enchantment is the story of Richard Raymond (Jonathan Weinberg), a biochemistry professor who, on the eve of receiving Harvard's Littauer award, is gripped by the need for introspection. Through a series of flashbacks, the audience meets: Darryl Parsons (Justin Levitt), Raymond's high school lab partner and companion for Dungeons and Dragons; Raymond's father (Theodore Hong), who quizzes the boy orally on SAT math questions; Darryl's father (Austin Grossman) and Raymond's teenage blind date, Renee Davis (Bianca Hovey...
...some delightfully lighthearted segments. Richard describes "the basic love equation"--"We set the value of love as an arbitrary constant...Figure has an affect sum as a real and not an integer of the domain zero less than L less than two." Later, when teaching Raymond to fight, Darryl explains, "Every human being is born able to hunt and kill to survive. But you don't see it much in the suburbs." Grossman's script captivates during these moments when the dialogue is not overtly philosophical...
...fact, several Black students with liberal political orientations maintain that Thomas's race alone is not enough for them to favor his confirmation. Darryl Blane Brooks, a fourth-year graduate student at the Law School and the Kennedy School of Government, says "My strong sentiment is that I would vote against...
...been Home Alone, Ghost and Pretty Woman, with nary a bankable star (though Pretty Woman turned Roberts into one). They were simple tales about people who change: the old stuff of drama, and of Hollywood in the decades when its tinsel glistened like gold. Richard Zanuck quotes his father Darryl, longtime pasha of 20th Century Fox, as saying success in movies boils down to three things: "story, story, story." Zanuck is an independent producer who has defied industry logic and made hits without big stars: Jaws, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy. As he notes with wry pride, "I'm a throwback...