Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...porno movie, I want it to be profound," he says. But he and co-stars CLAIRE DANES and OMAR EPPS, left, have their work cut out for them if they want profundity from a remake of The Mod Squad, one of the most delightfully cheesy shows ever to grace our blinking blue screens. How serious can one be with that happenin' '70s wardrobe? "It became a lot more serious since I was involved," insists Ribisi. Then he confides he's doing the phone interview in a kung fu outfit. Solid...
...survive a legacy like enslavement? It takes Lizzie DuBose 20 years, most of them in an asylum, to recover from the inheritance she receives in 1974: her grandmother Grace's quilt and the diary of her great-great-grandmother Ayo, a slave. "I come from a long line of forever people," reads one entry. "We back and gone and back again." Ayo's restless spirit twice returns, once with enough violence to drive Grace from her family, and again during Lizzie's teenage years. This leads to convoluted identity politics, for the dead Grace also inhabits Lizzie's body. Soon...
Maybe that explains why none of the great sluggers since has been able to attain the titanic grace--unalloyed by sadness and while he still had time to enjoy it. At the bottom of the Depression, Lou Gehrig got there, but had to be wheeled in on his deathbed. Ted Williams, Depression slugger and war hero, wasn't fully enrolled until he retired. Joe DiMaggio made it into our hearts only at the grave of his beloved Marilyn. Mays: another retirement entry. Mantle: another deathbed...
...around here are crazy about Sosa," says Ron Stampley, manager of the Cubby Bear, a popular sports bar near Wrigley Field. "They cheer for him as loudly as they cheer for Jordan." Indeed, Sosa's slugging streak, along with wunderkind pitcher Kerry Wood's arm and first baseman Mark Grace's hot bat, is helping to make the long-hapless Cubs into contenders for the first time in a decade. Having played well over .500 ball all season, by last Saturday the team was just 5 games out of first place in the central division...
...Wendy Cole. Reported by Julie Grace, with the Cubs