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...Affleck flashes his forgive-me smile and says, "I'm not really a whoremonger." This plangent one-liner is from his new movie, Jersey Girl, but the gaga-for-gossip public would not have been surprised if it had come from Affleck's recent chats with Jay Leno and Larry King or from a Saturday Night Live skit the other week when he was the guest host. And no, Jennifer Lopez didn't pop in, the way Affleck's ex-ex-girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow did the last time he was the host...
...wrote pieces for TIME on silent stars Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks (when their films appeared in handsome video collections), on Dorothy Dandridge (a new biography), on the comedy band leader Spike Jones (a double-CD set, with liner notes by Thomas Pynchon). One year, a splendid season of every Samuel Beckett play cued a longish essay; the next, the packaging of musical shorts from the 30s and 40s. And there was the week when all the grownups were on vacation and I assigned myself a page on a Hawaiian steel-guitar virtuoso of the 1920s. For goodness? sake...
...want to see them get brushed back, glare at the opposing pitcher and then slap a liner right back at the mound. I want them to whiff so bad that the outfielders feel the breeze. I want them to share tips on hitting during their daily workouts...
...nearly all of its came from the perimeter, even when Harvard was down two men on the penalty kill—that was truly different than the Vermont game. And the credit for that belongs to a penalty-kill unit that, despite playing without its top blue-liner Welch, shutdown one of the ECAC’s best power play units and its second-best offense...
...Harvard offense sprayed the Catamounts with 72 total shots on goal—28 in just the first period—as an Angela Ruggiero-less Crimson defense absolutely clamped down on the Vermont attack. The co-captain blue-liner was out serving a one-game suspension for what was ruled a kick to the head of a Dartmouth skater the night before, but the team filled in admirably in her absence...