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Jack Black is not a particularly funny man. He can pull off a one-liner, and he brightly sustains the Chris Farley torch of manic physical clowning, but it’s clear that his comedic range is inversely related to his girth. Fortunately, the producers of School of Rock have forged an ideal vehicle for Black’s brand of mischief, and with a sturdy cast and script behind him, he manages to whip up some of the biggest laughs of the year. Black plays Dewey Finn, a guitarist thrown out of his band, rendering him even less...
...even the extreme-surfing shops. "You just dive into all those places. You watch teenagers," says product-development executive Sandra Stangl. BombayKids designers travel as far as India and China for ideas, but they also watch MTV. It's all very secretive. Ask about next year's colors, and Farley at BombayKids demurs, "We'd have to shoot you if we told...
...Barn, Pier 1, the Bombay Co., Delia's and Target, are creating new products, catalogs and, in some cases, chains of specialty stores designed to capitalize on the decorating dreams of tweens and teens. "There's a kid quake going on, and spending on furniture is up," says Steve Farley, executive vice president of BombayKids, a year-old offshoot of the Bombay Co. The firm has just six kids' stores now, but it plans to have 100 in three years. At Pier 1, CEO Marvin Girouard foresees the company's new chain of Cargo Kids stores growing from...
Jack Black is not a particularly funny man. He can pull off a one-liner, and he brightly sustains the Chris Farley torch of manic physical clowning, but it’s clear that his comedic range is inversely related to his girth. Could you ever see Black settling into the kind of roles that Bill Murray now occupies so comfortably...
...example, Virgil's brothers say their rage might not have worn off. Melvin was the angriest, and although he thought for years about revenge, he eventually immersed himself in his Christian faith, encouraging whites and blacks to attend each other's church services. James too has long forgiven Farley and Sims, but he says he found real meaning in Virgil's death one night years later, in the '60s, when his car got stuck in a ditch on the same dark Docena-Sandusky Road. Two young white men pulled up and approached him, "and I thought...