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...When I was a freshman, there were freshmen who got roped in and tried to buy lawn clippings in the Square," says the sophomore. "People in Cambridge thought it was really easy to fool a Harvard...
...Earlier this year, when The Player was being shown to prospective distributors, Altman got in a public spat with two top studio executives over what he considered their disrespectful attitude. Ask Altman innocently about his 1985 movie that Sam Shepard wrote and starred in, and he cannot stop himself. "Fool for Love . . . I mean, I can't abide Sam Shepard." As an actor? "As a person. I just had it up to here with him. But I think that's a really good film -- a really good film...
...supporting roles are less impressive but competent, the positive exception being Justin Levitt, who makes the most of the play's hilarious characterization of Emperor Joseph II as a benign fool. More troublesome are the Venticelli, played by Howie Axelrod and Eleanor Kincaid, and the three nobles, Baron von Strack (Alfred di Venturi), Count Orsini-Rosen-berg (Peter Galatin) and Baron von Swieten (Arzhang Kameri). The Venticelli are cold and supercilious while the nobles are earnest and straightforward in their delivery: thoughtful characterization would have thing the other way around. Finally, overacting is a recurring problem with these roles, since...
Darrell Evans explains here how Hank Aaron used to try to fool pitchers into thinking he couldn't hit their worst pitch, thus increasing the chances of the hapless hurler eventually lobbing a fat one his way. There's good story about Billy Martin's verbal jousting with a New York Post reporter, as well as an uproarious account of ace hurler Jim Bunning's excellent adventure as a minor league skipper...
...wanted to write to thank your circulation department. Had it not been for your inconsistent delivery service, I would have fallen prey to another April Fool's joke. Tony C. Hsieh