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...Antley was also aging. Thirty-four this year, he discovered that his body, characteristically diminutive as jockeys, go, no longer reacted to the regimens he used to keep himself in racing trim. Jim Herzfeld, a screenwriter who lives next door to Antley's home in Pasadena, Calif., recalls that Antley talked about quitting. "He said it was too hard for him, not being able to eat what he wanted," Herzfeld recalls. Antley complained that unlike other jockeys, he had never been very good at "flipping," his term for vomiting to keep the weight off. When the police found...
...Carolina to check on Antley. And the brother did so only after Antley's pregnant wife, who was living separately from him in New York City, said she had not heard from him in days. He had once threatened her life. "Chris had quite a talent for racing," says Herzfeld, "but all the other stuff, he couldn't handle...
That fearlessness has served her well. When director John Herzfeld was auditioning actresses for 2 Days, he asked them to sit and read a scene in which Helga was shot. But Theron unexpectedly fell to the floor and crawled across the room as she read her lines; when she died, a star was born. In Bagger Vance, as a steel magnolia rekindling sparks with the lover who once abandoned her (Damon), she bites bravely into the hammiest of lines--"Now I'm supposed to run inta ya ahms and melt like buttah on a hot muffin?"--and chews so deftly...
...your flailing limbs can carry you to Meet the Parents. It is the work of director Jay Roach, whose Austin Powers movies were intermittently funny but not what anyone would call intricately constructed machines. What those movies needed was a couple of skilled tool-and-die makers like Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg, who wrote this screenplay. And a bunch of actors, led by Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, who understand that palpable reality will always trump frenzied fantasy when it comes to getting laughs...
According to the foundation's Web site, Tatar, who teaches Literature and Arts A-18, "Fairy Tales, Children's Literature, and the Culture of Childhood," plans to analyze the Bluebeard figure "in folklore, fiction and film noir." Herzfeld will analyze "past and present in modern Rome," and Martin will study "institutional affects on state behavior...