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Likewise, the characters are tolerable but do not elicit much empathy from the audience. Before they can really come together as a team, each player must exorcise his own demon. Tom Berenger is Jake Taylon, the arthritic catcher who must deal with retirement; Omar Epps is Willie Mays Hayes who has forsaken baseball for Hollywood glitz: Charlie Sheen reprises his role as Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn, the sport's bad boy who has traded in his Harley for Armani suits, a therapist, and cheesy cereal commercials. They have their requisite moments of epiphany, laughter, and tears. The peripheral characters help...

Author: By Susan S. Lee, | Title: `Major' Strikeout | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...first 100% Breakfast! release was aseven-inch single by Betty Please, a bandconsisting of Jake S. Krielkamp and Alex J.LeVine, both juniors, along with Gian Neffinger'93 and Oliver Strauch '94. The record found itsway across the country; it was received warmly atBU, BC, Princeton, Columbia and even as far awayas Berkeley. Then someone sent a copy to Europe.The music pioneer John Peel, of "Peel Sessions"fame, played it on BBC radio, and suddenly BettyPlease started receiving fan mail from England andScotland. The record then made its way to Germany,where it also met with success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Incipient Roadkill | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...bands have had luck in an oldAdams House squash court despite its echoes, whileothers find themselves forced to use the hot,cramped Lowell practice room. "I'm melting,"groans Martinez, "that's how I lose weight."Oh, please... Betty Please, Harvard'sgrungiest rock band, are (1 to r):singer/guitarist Jake, drummer A1,singer/guitarist Oliver and bassist Gian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Incipient Roadkill | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

PLAYERGP G A PTSPPGPM Bumstead, Geoff 28 15 19 34 7 22 Sancimino, Mike 26 11 18 29 3 32 Karam, Jake 28 9 17 29 1 20 Auger, Vincent 27 11 12 23 2 33 Drouin, P.C. 19 6 12 18 2 30 Scollan, Mark 21 5 11 16 2 11 Chartrand, Brad 28 4 12 16 1 44 Wilson, Steve 28 3 13 16 0 38 Hannah, Shaun 24 5 5 10 1 18 Lopatka, Geoff 28 6 3 9 0 48 Papp, Jamie 19 6 2 9 3 6 Dufresne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORNELL | 3/11/1994 | See Source »

...fact, though, if there is another, separate, tradition--and I'm not saying there is--then more than half of the good indie-pop bands functioning today are part of it: if Pavement (see Jake's piece next week) and the Loud Family are acutely conscious of being the end of something, it's an "end" that none of the best current bands led by women are part of, the "end" of something the Rolling Stones started, in which rock and roll was about, specifically, boys' experiences, boys who could or couldn't get no satisfaction. What brings the amazing...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: The Latest Slant on Pop Culture A Riff Off | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

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