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...Magglio Ordonez and Carlos Lee. In came speedy outfielders Jermaine Dye and Scott Podsednik, a career minor leaguer, as well as catcher A.J. Pierzynski, whose abrasive personality produces sparks on the field. Pitchers Freddy Garcia and Jose Contreras were acquired last year, and with starters Mark Buehrle and Jon Garland have formed a postseason fantastic four. They'll have to be way above average against the pitching-rich Astros, which feature 20-game winner Roy Oswalt, plus legends Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte...
...when Jackson, Miss., offers $8 million, Garland, Texas, ups it to $23.7 million. Council Bluffs, Iowa, is in for $20 million. Bass Pro is a destination store, one that attracts enough traffic to benefit other stores--and restaurants and hotels--in any city or mall, where it is the anchor tenant. After all, notes Hagale, there are just too many cookie-cutter mall stores. "We don't build gray boxes," he says. He's not bragging. The 130,000-sq.-ft. Bass Pro Outdoor World in Hanover, Md., has a massive fish tank, offers how-to lessons in fishing...
...pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz have been stolen ... The thief is being described as 'armed and fabulous.'" --DAVID LETTERMAN...
...essentially People Will Talk is a melancholy affair, filled with stories of early success and cumulative sorrows. Hardly a witness to the old days can speak without suppressing a sigh. Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz have been auctioned off; stars dim as predictably as sunrise; archetype runs downhill to caricature: Clark Gable is copied by Burt Reynolds who fades into Tom Selleck. Louise Brooks, who seems to have spent her retirement reading, offers the sole consolation. "Proust wrote: 'The only paradise is paradise lost.' Isn't that beautiful?" she asks Kobal. Wisely, he keeps...
...sultry Stormy Weather (1933) and including such perennials as It's Only a Paper Moon, Last Night When We Were Young, Come Rain or Come Shine, The Man That Got Away and, perhaps most memorably, Over the Rainbow, the Academy Award-winning ballad that Judy Garland sang in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz; in New York City. Born Chaim Arluk, the son of a Buffalo cantor, he started out as a pianist and band vocalist and began writing tunes for revues and nightclubs like Harlem's Cotton Club, including I Love a Parade, I've Got the World...