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...pressing question: can a college coach, who typically imposes tight control over pliant 18-year-olds, meld the egos of millionaired NBA megastars? After all, several top college coaches have fired airballs in the pros, guys like Lon Kruger of Illinois, fired by the Atlanta Hawks, and Miami's Leonard Hamilton, a washout with the Washington Wizards. Krzyzewski's favorite wink-wink reply: "I'm a millionaire...
...Including, now, a Hollywood-style film set. Last decade one of Albany's famous sons, novelist Tim Winton, created a young surf rat not too dissimilar to Wade, and the children's TV series based on him, Lockie Leonard, has been shooting at the author's alma mater, Albany Senior High School. While the cost of lugging cast and crew more than 400 km south of Perth for the 21-week shoot undoubtedly cut into the $A7.5 million budget, the decision was a natural one for producer Kylie du Fresne. "Everything Tim writes about in the book is here...
...While Winton fictionalized his childhood Albany as Angelus, the pristine beaches and the old police station where his father worked survive. For the school scenes of Lockie Leonard, there are also more extras than you can poke a stick at. Willingly confined to a classroom and wearing their own uniforms on a sunny afternoon during their holidays, kids let loose with hormones and havoc as director Roger Hodgman reins in this largely local and inexperienced cast. "They're terrific," he says...
...this Oscar winner introduced the mass audience to the marriage of serious dance (Jerome Robbins') and serious music (Leonard Bernstein's). The way to see it, if not on the big screen, is in this two-disc MGM set that includes reminiscences of those baby Jets and Sharks, now in their...
...while in the '60's, with Bob Dylan forging poetry from folk and rock music, it seemed possible that more traditional bards might return the compliment and make pop out of poetry. The leading candidate was Leonard Cohen, a Montreal poet and novelist. Cohen wrapped his sepulchral baritone around songs of betrayal and loss that shivered with the bruised romantic's gift of inexhaustible awe. Cohen never became a pop star--others had hits from his lusciously haunting Suzanne and Sisters of Mercy--but his pieces hung in the mind, like psalms or dirges remembered from childhood...