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Before everyone has come to a stop on the flat, four-lane straightaway, a Toyota and a Honda have nosed up to an invisible starting line. A fat kid in a ball cap stands between them and raises his arms, then drops them. Engines scream and rubber burns. Speeds approach 100 m.p.h., and 1,320 ft. later, the Toyota's rear lights flash, signaling the winner...
...Pure Imagination (Impulse!) jazz pianist Eric Reed takes a sunny stroll down Broadway to where it intersects Memory Lane. Reed, a former member of Wynton Marsalis' septet, is only 27 years old, but his new album could easily have been titled Pure Nostalgia: the songs he covers in this collection of Broadway show tunes are classic numbers, including Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music, 1973), Hello, Young Lovers (The King and I, 1951) and My Man's Gone Now (Porgy and Bess...
...split, Lewis became an occasional contributor of gossip to the Hollywood Reporter and in 1996 published The Private Lives of the Three Tenors, a quickie biography of Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti gushing with tales of the singers' amorous adventures. Her publisher, Steven Schragis of Birch Lane Press, says Lewis recommended that the book's publicity notes include this teaser: "How did the author, a glamorous Beverly Hills writer formerly with the Hollywood Reporter, get all the inside dope? She denies rumors she and Domingo were more than friends in the '80s, but read the book...
...scored 10 of the team's first 18 points, the buzz was back in Lavietes. The magical bucket came when a steal by Feaster--one of seven she had in the game--ignited a mini-break by Feaster and senior guard Alison Seanor. The two namesakes tore through the lane on a two-on-one, and Seanor passed up a lay-up to give Feaster her moment...
...deal, Warner Bros. is likely to demand that NBC replace Seinfeld with another one of its shows. To further complicate matters, Paramount, which produces Frasier, may insist that if that show is moved to Thursday, it must be followed by a new comedy the studio is developing around Nathan Lane, who is currently starring in the film Mouse Hunt. In formulating its post-Seinfeld strategy, NBC will have to take into account all these demands, as well as the other scheduling dilemmas caused by shuffling its shows and whatever tricks its competitors have in store...