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Andy Griffith was always hopping into the car with Opie and "going to Raleigh," and according to Money magazine, maybe we should, too. The Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area tops Money's eighth annual "Best Places to Live in America" list. The Chamber of Commerce ought to be happy: Fortune magazine, also published by Time Inc., ranked the area as the nation's best business spot earlier this year. Rounding out the Top 10: Provo-Orem and Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah; San Jose, Calif.; Stamford-Norwalk, Conn.; Gainesville, Fla.; Seattle, Sioux Falls, S.D.; and Albuquerque, N.M. At the bottom: small...
With a cast that features Susan Sarandon ("Bull Durham," "Thelma and Louise") and Tommy Lee Jones '69 ("The Fugitive"), along with a terrific debut performance from 10-year-old Tennessee street kid Brad Renfro, it would seem that Schumacher couldn't go wrong. Nevertheless, the director's painfully close adherence to the Grisham script fails to inspire...
...costs I avoid getting in her way." His next book is a novel, tentatively titled The Promise of Rest and on schedule to be finished by Labor Day. "It deals with the complex situation that develops when a man in his early 30s comes home to Durham to his recently separated parents to die of AIDS. I think of it as my stint as an AIDS nurse. Because of my condition, I could not enter into that unbelievably grueling but fascinating process when my friends were dying...
...Robbins fans should wait on his next work lest they be disenchanted with him in "Proxy." Like Robbins' early works, the early scenes of this film are gems, but not reason enough to try this one out. Stay home and rent "Bull Durham" if you want to see Robbins do stupid...
...letting street sarcasm get you down. A stream of abuse is the musical accompaniment to the choreography of manhood in motion. The high testosterone content may not be all bad. "I do like the boys' rituals of sports," says Ron Shelton, writer- director of the smartly rueful Bull Durham and the zesty White Men Can't Jump. "I like the notion of boys playing games, men playing boys' games...