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...EMMITT GUARANTEES JETS VICTORY IN SUPER BOWL With the second pick in the 1990 draft, the Jets selected Penn State running back Blair Thomas, whom Gang Green expected to follow Franco Harris and Curt Warner as a former Nittany Lion who became an NFL star. Thomas instead preceded Ki-Jana Carter and Curtis Enis as Penn State busts. At No. 17, the Cowboys drafted Florida running back Emmitt Smith, who now owns three Super Bowl rings...
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...Lion field hockey and lacrosse teams have never beaten Harvard in their short histories. The field hockey team did, however, win an ECAC championship en route to a school record 13 wins on the season and the ECAC championship last fall. Such success has not been found by the lacrosse team, which is winless in 27 league games in its first four seasons of Ivy play...
What's not to love? The Producers, a musical based on Brooks' 1968 movie, opens on Broadway next week with the kind of rapturous buzz (and $13 million in advance sales) not seen since The Lion King. Start with a presold audience, lovers of the classic comedy (the first film Brooks directed) about a schlocky Broadway producer who connives with his nervous accountant to raise money for an awful Nazi musical so they can abscond with the funds when the thing flops. Add the best-possible modern substitutes for stars Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder--Nathan Lane as producer...
...real-life Broadway crowd, The Producers is a gift from the show-biz gods. For years, most of the street's big musical hits have been operatic British imports. The Lion King was a great homegrown boost, but Disney and Julie Taymor were, and still are, outsiders. The Producers is a product and a celebration of the kind of musical-comedy showmanship that doesn't exist much anymore. "It's as if this is that one last musical from the 1950s, and everybody forgot to produce it," says one of the show's producers, Tom Viertel. "And now here...