Word: pal
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Here I was, invited to Necker Island, Richard Branson's island. Steve Ross flew the Warner jet to bring us Nathan's hot dogs. I mean, pal, I'm a kid from Baldwin [Long Island, N.Y.]. You know what I mean...
...boys who became U2 -- the name, suggested by a local musician pal, refers ironically to the high-altitude spy plane -- all knew of one another, vaguely, from school. The Clayton and Evans families were friendly. The Edge, whose family is Welsh, and Bono (still generally called Paul Hewson back then) had briefly gone to the same guitar teacher. For his part, Bono had a distant but still vivid impression of Clayton, who was raised outside London and in Kenya, and had moved to Dublin with his mother and airline-pilot father at the ( age of eight. He had come...
...MIKE: Then we dashed out to court 4. The faster you run the less you have to sign autographs and pose for pictures. We were hitting, just the two of us, with our pal and coach from Chicago, Mark Bey. There was a great crowd watching while we went through our typical Bryan Brothers drills for an hour and a half. I feel like we're hitting well and have had a good run up to the Open...
...want to seem sexist but some of the women don't seem to get along as well together as the guys do. I'm not sure why. Please don't write me letters on that comment! As we were eating, Corina Morariu, who is dating our pal and former UCLA star, Justin Gimelstob, came up to us and put her arms around us and said, "ok guys which one of you is playing mixed doubles with me!" We both laughed and of course said "me!" My dad piped in and started teasing Corina about whether her #14 ranking was high...
...written the same novels the real one has. The fictional Bret cavorts with celebrities ("Jean-Michel Basquiat, Molly Ringwald, John McEnroe, Ronald Reagan Jr. ..."), has numerous affairs with both sexes and is perpetually strung out on coke, tequila, heroin, cosmopolitans and crystal meth. He even has a novelist pal named Jay McInerney. (According to Ellis, McInerney was not thrilled with his cameo appearance. "Really, out of all the s_____ things that have been written about him, this is the lowest? I guess he's very sensitive." McInerney could not be reached for comment...