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...incredible memory--visual, audio, emotional--of his own high school years," notes James Spader, who played the deliciously haughty preppie Steff in Pretty in Pink. "He's very much in touch with the adolescent part of himself," Sheedy says. It's a golden touch. Who wouldn't grab the chance to remake one's adolescence, in which the geek in one's closet now has the swagger of fearless charm, and a rock symphony swells in the parking lot on prom night? "I think he's still trying to be popular at school," says Jon Cryer, who played Duckie...
Often the boss himself will grab the limelight and ham it up. Barry Ross, 43, owner of Houston's Superior Waterbeds, was watching a disk jockey tape a spot for his firm seven years ago when he got frustrated with the hireling's laid-back style. Recalls Ross: "I wanted an irritant to wake somebody up during the early morning." He grabbed the microphone and began wildly shouting out lines. "When the engineer played it back," Ross says, "it sounded so good that I told the deejay to go home." In one zany Fourth of July ad, Ross dressed like...
...good team never quits, especially not when it's on the brink of a loss. Adelphi followed up with three goals of its own to grab a 7-5 lead...
...that war and mass destruction are turn-offs. Why is it so hard for many of us to break from the bondage of negativism? I believe it was another man named Leo--Leo Tolstoy--who named one of his fine books War and Peace. He was saying to us, "Grab life by the throat and hug it." If he wasn't saying this, who cares? We all make mistakes. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Take me, for instance. Sometimes a tiny voice tells me, "Leo, you are creating soft-centered, runny confections again." But then I think: There...
...contract player for Warner Bros., the studio that had ushered in the talkies a few years earlier with The Jazz Singer. Many silent-film stars' careers were destroyed by the triumph of sound; Cagney's was ensured by it. He was one of the first actors to grab an audience by sending dialogue special delivery, with a style of high-speed utterance that could animate even the most inert exchanges...