Word: griffins
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Huskie Jerry Nelson led off the game with a walk and second baseman Jim Mealey followed with a single, both runners moving up on the throw. With runners on second and third, right fielder John Griffin bounced out to second, scoring Nelson. Cleanup hitter Paul DiPillo followed with a single, driving in Mealey...
What accounts for its amazing popularity? Partly it is the elementary but engaging word game (many puzzles are devised personally by Creator Merv Griffin, who also wrote the show's theme music), partly the hypnotic allure of the wheel itself. It may also be a function of Host Sajak, whose low-key, faintly ironic style is a welcome break from most game-show gush. "As a game- show host, there's always the temptation to do a parody of one, to do a rapid- fire delivery and smile a little more," says Sajak, 39, who was a weatherman for KNBC...
Four deserving actors left out in the cold on nomination day were Tracey Ullam (Plenty), Michael J. Fox (Back to the Future), Rosanna Arquette (After Hours), and Griffin Dunne (After Hours...
...Martin Scorcese's After Hours did not garner even one of the big awards is entirely inexplicable. Easily the most original film of the year (with the possible exception of Terry Gilliam's Brazil or The Kiss of the Spiderwoman), this black comedy chronicling the adventures of Yuppie Everyman Griffin Dunne as he tries to extract himself from a darkened SoHo should have been a shoe-in for nominations in the Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress category. What happened? Were all the members of the Academy sick the night that this film was screened...
...five players for Princeton include Jeff Stanley, Kean Butcher, Fazal Shiek, Tom Shepard and Christian Griffin. Jernigan should have little difficulty dispensing with top-ranked freshman Stanley, the junior national champion...