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...This investigation in no way diminished the bravery and sacrifice displayed by Corporal Tillman." LIEUT. GENERAL PHILIP KENSINGER JR., announcing that Pat Tillman, the football star who gave up a $3.6 million contract to join the Army, was probably killed by so-called friendly fire in Afghanistan last month...
...consideration. Who's doing their scheduling? Donald Margulies' 1992 play concerns a world-famous painter who pays a visit to an ex-girlfriend (Linney) now living in the English boondocks with her archeologist husband. Margulies' work (Dinner With Friends, Collected Stories) has always struck me as slick but rather pat. This play, however, has all sorts of intriguing tendrils, as relationships and backstory are unraveled slowly, in teasing scenes that jump back and forth in time. The cast of four is excellent, but Linney is a revelation. She's been a charmer in movies like Love Actually...
...confined to a wheelchair and hooked to an oxygen tank, the result of too many decades filled with too many Lucky Strikes. Far from a bluegrass blueblood, he made his living as a Philadelphia car dealer, and it was in his showroom in 1976 that he and Pat met. A decade later they went into the horse business, opening a 100-acre farm in Chester County...
...farm took a devastating hit when trainer Bob Camac and his wife were shot to death by the wife's son in a quarrel over money. That sucked the life out of Roy--from whom emphysema was already sucking the breath--and he decided to sell out. Pat persuaded him to keep two horses, a pair of yearlings they sent to a farm in Florida so that its general manager, George Isaacs, could evaluate them. "Let's see what you have here," Isaacs said to Roy. Ultimately, he pronounced one of the horses--Smarty Jones--a "runner...
...Preakness was his most impressive outing yet. Smarty Jones--which was the nickname of Pat's mother--woke up to a steamy Baltimore day in which the temperature reached 84° by post time. He seemed untroubled by the heat or anything else for that matter, ignoring the reporters massed outside his stall as he hung his head over the door webbing to enjoy the breeze from a fan. "That's the way you want him," said stable manager Bill Foster. "The more relaxed, the better...