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Although humor is only a subtle part of his recent film performances, Murray still enjoys making people laugh, and he treats any kind of public appearance--a spot on Letterman, throwing out the first pitch at a Cubs game, his frequent rounds at charity golf tournaments--as a chance to recreate the spontaneous charge of Second City. "The best thing I do all year is Pebble Beach," he says. "There's 18 greens and 18 tees. That's like 36 shows--and that's just the formal rooms...
...whose hit recording of Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine and subsequent work helped define the Big Band era; in Newbury Park, Calif. Though not as popular as his rival, Big Band giant Benny Goodman, Shaw was more adventurous, rejecting formulas to experiment with instrumentation and arrangements. Between frequent retirements, he recorded with his eponymous Big Band, the Gramercy Five and other groups, producing such hits as Frenesi, Star Dust and Summit Ridge Drive. A sometimes irascible perfectionist who had eight wives (including Lana Turner and Ava Gardner), he had little patience for the music business, which he quit...
DIED. ARTHUR LYDIARD, 87, New Zealand track coach widely regarded as the first proponent of jogging as a training technique; of an apparent heart attack while on a U.S. speaking tour; in Houston. Before the frequent marathon winner came up with his then revolutionary concept--that long, slow distance training worked best to develop stamina for all kinds of running--the accepted regimen was a form of short sprinting called interval training. When Lydiard, who was initially dismissed by critics, was not invited to coach New Zealand's Olympic team at the 1960 Summer Games, he paid...
...DIED. ARTHUR LYDIARD, 87, New Zealand track coach widely regarded as the inventor of jogging; of an apparent heart attack, while on a U.S. speaking tour; in Houston. Before the frequent marathon winner came up with his then-revolutionary concept-that long, slow, distance training, or "LSD," worked best to develop stamina for all kinds of running-the accepted regimen was a form of short sprinting called interval training. When Lydiard, who was initially dismissed by critics, was not invited to be a coach for his country's Olympic team at the 1960 Summer Games, he paid...
...last week, three of the PEN attendees were detained by Beijing police, including the branch's two founders: Yu Jie, a prolific essayist and frequent critic of Chinese political culture, and social commentator Liu Xiaobo. The police questioned the three about their writings and copied material from their computers. Yu's wife Liu Min says police told her that her husband was suspected of "endangering state security," and that she should "tell her old man to quit writing." All three men were later released, but as of Thursday night, Yu said police were still stationed outside his door and following...