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...frustrated thinking about the Catch-22 that being a serious baseball fan has become, so I decide to try to track down one man I'm sure will understand my gripes. At 66, Don Zimmer is entering his 48th year in professional baseball and has become a kind of elder statesman of the game. Zimmer's had a first hand look at the rise of free agency, the inauguration of night games at Wrigley Field, the introduction of divisional play and the institution of the designated hitter. The one-time player, coach and manager is currently the bench coach...
...They followed strict rules of diet. Neighbors never saw more than a few at a time, coming and going or perhaps at the local pancake house. No one was ever playing tennis. The thirty-nine dead computer monks at 18241 Colina Norte were not all young. They had their elders; "Father John" was in his sixties. But whatever influence that elder had, it was not dictatorial. Police confirmed that the sixty-year old "Father John" was not one of the two who died last. Instead, President Clinton, in the usual spray of condolences, may have hit the mark when...
...dangerous enough at the best of times, but jostling has broken out between Irish construction thugs from Hell's Kitchen, who by tradition control labor in the tunnel, and Italian heavies hired by management to break the union. At first Billy tries to ride out the skirmishing. Then his elder brother Paddy, a former prizefighter who is an enforcer for the Irish mob, hands him a pistol and tells him to make himself scarce. "These guys are psychos. I just don't know how it's gonna play out," says Paddy...
...ease, energy and good humor that's little short of astonishing. In the great Shakespearean tradition, Erik Amblad '98 dashes in and out of three different roles and is scenestealingly hilarious in the tiny part of the bumpkin rustic, Corin. Chuck O'Toole '97 plays Orlando's usurping elder brother Oliver as a marvelously villainous fop in the first act, although his performance wavers toward the end of the play with his character's transformation into a repentant lover. And Scott Brown '98 and Lucia Brawley '99 are delightful in their interpretations of the hapless shepherd Silvius and the arrogant...
...other young actors imitating his career. I actually hear people say, 'I want to do a Johnny Depp.' And no, I won't name who they are." What he will argue is that his friend's best work is in his straightest role: the super-responsible elder sibling trying to keep his family from spinning into total dysfunction in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? "He's real. He plays heroes in an uncorny...