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Like Snelgrove, I’m a huge Red Sox fan, but because I was lucky enough to get tickets to Games 6 and 7 of the ALCS in New York, I was away from Boston for most of last week and I missed the celebrations throughout my hometown last Wednesday night...
...seems, at the very least, far less awkward than any character in his films. After exploring the unlikable, self-tortured inhabitants of his hometown of Omaha in Citizen Ruth, Election and About Schmidt, Payne, 43, has moved on to unlikable, self-tortured Californians. In his latest film, Sideways, opening Friday, the director and his longtime writing partner Jim Taylor turned a novel by Rex Pickett into a quirky movie about a failed writer and a C-list actor who go on a weeklong wine-tasting bachelor party through the vineyards near Santa Barbara. Paul Giamatti plays the novelist...
...right into their then worthless laps. So Kaling and Withers wrote a play to expose these facts. They ran it in New York and Los Angeles, to the vociferous praise of critics and audiences. And now they are hitting where the heart is: Matt and Ben’s hometown of Cambridge, Mass. and Damon’s almost-alma mater, Harvard University...
...Kung started “College Matters,” an education non-profit run by students and directed towards spreading information on the nuts and bolts of getting into top schools across the country. She began by conducting a seminar on college admissions in her hometown, and quickly packed her city hall with eager soon-to-be high school graduates and parents...
There are two V.S. Naipauls, and the wrong one has become famous. Like most people, I encountered the wrong V.S. Naipaul first. This happened in the late 1980s, when my brother returned to our small South Indian hometown after his first year at a Californian university. Having left as a quiet, affable boy, he came back a very bad-tempered young man?and this change had taken place, we discovered, because of a writer named Naipaul, whom he had been reading in California. Each time we saw an overcrowded bus or hit a road with potholes, my brother would repeat...