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...have drawn fewer fans). A cable dispute between Cox Communications, which has exclusive rights to broadcast Hornets games, and Charter Communications, the cable provider for about 225,000 residents in suburban St. Tammany Parish, left many affluent fans unable to watch their team. To add to the Hornets' hard luck, the cash-strapped team was set to receive a much-needed $47 million loan from Societe Generale, the French bank that employed a rogue trader who just cost the firm a cool $7 billion. The bank has shut down its U.S. sports lending practice, though Hornets president Hugh Weber insists...
...Harry Caray he wasn't. But graphic designer Karl Ehrhardt achieved cult fame among baseball fans as the New York Mets' self-appointed commentator. From 1964 to 1981, the "Sign Man of Shea Stadium"--whom the Mets flew to the 1973 World Series for good luck--sat in the stands and held up hundreds of prepared block-lettered placards to tweak (JOSE CAN YOU SEE? when Jose Cardenal struck out) or praise (IT'S ALIVE! when a weak player got a hit). "I called them the way I saw them," he said...
...least Clift, Dean and Ledger had the luck to be making serious dramas from Oscar-winning directors. Anyone who worked in other kinds of movies ran into the wall of the Academy's genre snobbery. Crime movies (later known as film noir) had a dark glory, a stinging postwar fatalism, but flew under the Academy's radar and beneath its contempt. Of the hundreds of westerns in the '50s, some were superb, like Ford's The Searchers and Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, but even those A-list directors could not interest Oscar in their oaters--zero nominations for those...
...hundred tickets for the public? Sheesh, I'd have better luck trying to score tickets to an Austin City Limits taping," a person with the tag OreganoO posted on an Austin American Statesman blog. "Why couldn't they have picked a larger venue? Answer: the elite want it to feel intimate and clubby. When we see the televised debate, the seats will be full of pols, fat cats, and smug insiders who earned their seats Lord knows how, while the hoi polloi - the people this party once claimed to serve - clamor on the sidewalk for a glimpse of the candidates...
...couple more losses this weekend, though, and we might soon be hearing a phrase that’s always been associated with Harvard men’s basketball: better luck next year...