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Even on dry land his scowl could sink a ship. So Walter Matthau had no trouble at all swashbuckling himself into the character of the peg-legged Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red in Roman Polanski's Pirates. The idea of making a period film appealed to him because "I get to act instead of just being Walter Matthau." But apart from the acting, it has not been a barrel of yo- ho-hos. His beard itched for the first five months, dragging around in his 30-lb. costume has been a drudge, and the wooden leg is not exactly comfortable. Filming...
...medical problems began during surgery, when doctors discovered that his chest cavity was too small to accommodate the grapefruit- size Jarvik-7. DeVries was forced to pare away at the breastbone and twist the heart's chambers around to make it fit. "It was like putting a round peg in a square hole," he said. The struggle to implant the artificial heart probably contributed to Burcham's massive bleeding over the next 24 hours. In all, he lost more than five gallons of blood--four times the total volume in an average-size adult. Only continual transfusions kept him alive...
...Their ivy-covered burial ground," the late composer Steve Goodman called it, where Gabby Hartnett hit his Homer in the Gloamin' and Babe Ruth may have pointed to the sky. Bill Veeck, who planted the original outfield vines in 1938, sits out there every day now bleaching his peg leg. That style of ivy is called bittersweet...
...jolly. And Peg is much bigger than...
...gets worse, far worse. Peg is big and jolly, and so blatantly maternal that any semi-conscious reader can see her realization that she is a lesbian coming years before she or her family does. Cathy, the only one of the four main characters who inspires not even the slightest bit of interest, turns out so typically that you can probably call it from right where you're sitting. She's a Catholic from Philadelphia, and her first serious boyfriend is a social outcast who sweeps her off her feet and then unaccountably dumps her--but then, she didn...