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...Gourmet John and Wandering Jew II, thru-hikers trekking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. These were the more pleasant evenings. On one occasion, our FOP group had the less pleasant experience of sleeping under a plastic tarp set up on a steep hillside so that all eleven group members were hugging each other. Group bonding at its best...
...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway's accidental involvement in the suicide of a New Orleans Mafia lawyer leads him to "all kinds of trouble" in the first chapter of John Grisham's "The Client." In producer Joel Schumacher's adaptation of the novel (also "The Client"), however, it is the screenplay's disinvolvement from the opening-scene suicide and its "bloody and explosive secret" that causes the film "all kinds of trouble...
...tense tie with Switzerland) nearly ensures that the U.S. will advance to the second of five rounds in the 24-team bash. It also drew praise for the upstart Yanks from a skeptical world press; London's Daily Telegraph dubbed them "Team Miracle." Naturally, the spokesman for the U.S. eleven, Dean Linke, is even more enthusiastic: "We really are America's Dream Team of soccer...
...addition, only three performers from an eleven-member cast are mentioned at all, and little is said about them other than their names. One of the three, Genevieve Roach, is identified as playing the lead character's daughter when, in fact, she plays his colleague: the role of the daughter, Karin (not Joanne) is played by Jessica Semerjian, an actress who neither looks nor sounds anything like Genevieve. I cannot accept Ms. Lee's remark that "the acoustics of the auditorium overwhelm the singers" as an excuse for confusing such a basic element of the plot...
Leigh Anderson is getting rid of her cash. She uses a bank-issued debit card to buy everything from groceries and gasoline to stamps at the post office. "I used to keep spare change for coffee, but the 7-Eleven just started accepting the card," says the 33-year-old education consultant. She shuns checks too, having signed up for a new computer service called ScanFone that lets her pay her credit-card, utility and 17 other bills in just 10 minutes by tapping a few numbers on the keypad of a high-tech telephone that sends instructions...