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...never acted before. Yet when a casting search of schools around Manchester turned him up, and he walked in to audition, Boyle looked at the boy's seraphic face and said, "I bet that's him." Etel didn't give as good a reading of the lines in Frank Cottrell Boyce's script as some of the other boys, but that didn't trouble the director. "I didn't really want an actor," Boyle says. "I was looking for an innocence, a simplicity and a beauty that make you feel like you're not watching a manipulated piece of commercial...
Cambridge Police Department spokesman Frank D. Pasquarello said last year that no foul play was suspected in the death and that it appeared that Fonseca took his own life...
...reluctant to talk about [the assist to turnover ratio] because I don’t want to jinx the whole thing,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “It’s good to see the guys play better offensive basketball, and get each other good shots...
There has always been a game of one-downsmanship among modern memoirists as to who has the weirdest, most dysfunctional, most damaging parents. Granted, Kathryn Har- rison more or less ran the table with 1997's The Kiss, which describes her four-year affair with her father, and Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes) and Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors) aren't far behind. But there's spirited competition for fourth place. Two new memoirs, Michael Rips' The Face of a Naked Lady (Houghton Mifflin; 192 pages) and Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle (Scribner; 288 pages), are worthy contenders...
...local handyman who always walked down stairs backward, a tornado that sucked his grandmother up through a garbage chute. When he was 9 years old, Rips watched a circus acrobat plunge to her death from a 50-ft. pole. (Naked Lady shares a kind of adolescent gothic vibe with Frank Conroy's excellent Stop-Time...