Word: odd
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...lesson that Wendel has fully absorbed. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, he strutted onto a stage and faced all comers in the first-person shooter Quake 4. The first challenger lost, 23 to 0. Another scored -3. None of the 20-odd opponents scored a point. Afterward, Wendel talked up a new deal he had signed for the Championship Gaming Series. Instead of playing, Wendel will be announcing for DirecTV's new series. "I'm going to be the John Madden of gaming," says Wendel/Fatal1ty. That's when he's not being the Michael Jordan...
...odd pairing, I guess. The director sent it to me. I care about these things. In the States, nobody really knows about this horrific event. When I first saw the letters my character sent to his family, I was completely moved...
...keystone of Calvinism is predestination, and what most non-Calvinists may find odd is how you could be so sure that you were predestined for heaven if you didn't pull through. Or were...
...dozen potential producers?to get it staged. Says Simon: "If we had closed, I would have folded my tent and gone out to Los Angeles to write My Three Sons for twelve years." Instead, success followed success: Barefoot in the Park (1963), an evocation of newlywed days; The Odd Couple (1965), based on an experience of Danny's; Sweet Charity (1966), a Bob Fosse musical now enjoying a Broadway revival; Plaza Suite (1968), a trio of bittersweet one acts set in the same hotel room; Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1969), a hilarious yet pathetic picture...
...coats and fetches their drinks. He husbands his money for his family, and has grown more cautious over the years. He invested the first $75,000 from Come Blow Your Horn in "cattle that froze to death in Montana." A far bigger error: selling the TV rights to The Odd Couple to Paramount when it made the movie, on the presumption that it would never become a series?a bad guess that Simon says may have cost him as much as $20 million. Later on he bought the Eugene O'Neill Theater on Broadway as a home for his plays...