Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their intoxicatingly sweet presence by serenading the audience with classic hits like "Quit Playing Games With My Heart," "As Long As You Love Me" and "I'll Never Break Your Heart." At one point in the show, the boys brought up five mother-daughter couples and dedicated "The Perfect Fan" (a new song Brian wrote about his mother) to each mom present there with her daughter. Being the softie that I am, I cried. I actually didn't stop crying until I got home. More about that later...
...used to be a Star Wars fan. That is, until I realized what the term "Star Wars fan" entails. One day while surfing the net, I found the enchanting site www.jarjarmustdie.com. Faced with pictures of Jar-Jar being bludgeoned, hacked, served on a silver platter, etc., I realized that some "Star Wars fans" have too much time on their hands. Now I'm just a "Star Wars observer." Less chance of spiraling into delirium, I would hope. I was actually happy The Phantom Menace wasn't the religious event it was supposed to be. After all, the marketing juggernaut clouded...
...Harrington was a Madonna fan. "Like a Virgin" was a hit in 1985, the same year the superstar singer married actor Sean Penn...
...fan relished the opportunity more than Steve Klotz, 41, a retirement-home director from Jacobus, Pa., and the father of Swarthmore defensive back Josh Klotz. Steve had witnessed many of the team's recent embarrassments. In 1997, during a 73-to-0 drubbing by Johns Hopkins, the scorekeepers, in an act of mercy, let the clock run through time-outs. After that season, Steve said, "The players told the administration that they were tired of going out and playing games no one cared about." Last year under new coach Peter Alvanos, Swarthmore was competitive in several games. This summer...
...perils and pleasures of mythmaking. Maybe audiences will forgive Costner for making that noble flop and welcome him back to the baseball-weepie lode he mined in the sappy, canny Field of Dreams. (He even plays catch with his dead dad again.) Or perhaps, like this dogged Costner fan, you will simply want to shoot yourself by the third inning...