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...finger," he complains during one imaginary visit with Tommy--and since then Tommy has been unable to go into a fire without taking a hit off a flask. (Tommy's alcoholism, curiously, did not dissuade Miller beer from a sponsorship deal that includes product placements and paying for the debut episode to air commercial free.) His marriage has fallen apart, and his wife is dating. Unwilling to let her go, he gathers his three kids around the kitchen table, breaks out a roll of bills and announces "a little game" wherein they can win cash by giving information about...
...lead in NBC's hit hospital sitcom Scrubs had the cockiness to write and star in his directorial debut, Garden State (which opens July 28). The film is a love song to suburban New Jersey that is so smart and touching, Bruce Springsteen might be able to retire soon. "I kind of wanted it to suck. I wanted it to be a big, noble failure," says Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence, who will have Braff, 29, direct some episodes this season. "I was extremely jealous. I might have to put myself on the show as an actor to even the playing...
DIED. ISABEL SANFORD, 86, husky-voiced actress best known as Louise Jefferson on TV's The Jeffersons; in Los Angeles. After years in the theater, she made her movie debut as the loquacious Tillie in the 1967 interracial love story Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. But her defining role came in 1975, when she moved into a "dee-luxe apartment in the sky" in Norman Lear's groundbreaking comedy about an upwardly mobile black family. For 10 years she provided the steadying foil for Sherman Hemsley's peppery George and in 1981 became the first African-American actress...
...tourists seemed to have lost patience with the game's sleazy Wild West flavor. With revenues declining, several casinos closed their poker rooms. Then, within the past 18 months, after the explosion in Internet gambling, which usually takes the form of poker or horse racing, and the cable TV debut of the World Poker Tour, the game took off again. "The games are classy affairs with megabucks at stake, and there are a lot of new people in the game," says World Poker Tour commentator Mike Sexton. "Poker is seen as a competition and a sport now, not as gambling...
Birtwell, 25, was forced to sit out the beginning of the season, before making his debut for the high-A Lakeland Tigers of the Florida State League in mid April...