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...grew up in San Diego (his father James, who died in 1989, sold real estate and ran answering services). Crowe skipped three grades, graduated from high school at 15 and became a journalist by sending writing samples to rock critic Lester Bangs (played in the movie by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Writing became both his vocation and his mode of rebellion against his mother Alice, a teacher who banned rock music in their home and refused to buy Crowe a bicycle because "they're too dangerous." ("If she'd bought me a bike, I'd probably have a different...
...Junior quarterback Gavin Hoffman, a transfer from Northwestern, captured the Penn single-season passing record last year, throwing for 2,322 yards. Hoffman also established records for completions and pass attempts...
...difficult loss for the Crimson last November, Hoffman completed a Quaker school-record 29 passes, including a desperation 50-yard Hail Mary pass in the waning seconds to secure...
...lowlights: Cornell's Ricky Rahne rebounded from fourth-and-13 with no timeouts to produce a pair of touchdowns in the last 2:49. Gavin Hoffman purloined a win for Penn with a 50-yard touchdown on fourth-and-10. And most painful of all, a fever-stricken Joe Walland set records for Eli proficiency and Crimson futility, posting 437 yards through the air to lead Yale to a come-from-behind triumph in The Game...
...Hollywood made a movie of "All the President's Men," wherein Deep Throat looks nothing like the seal-sleek John Sears. History's image of Deep Throat became the gaunt and shadowy Hal Holbrook, in the same way that, for purposes of myth, Carl has half-dissolved into Dustin Hoffman...