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...Four years later, rivals are exploring the power of suggestion. At a farewell for the Wallabies in Sydney on Aug. 22, former captain Phil Kearns said the All Blacks had peaked 18 months ago against the British Lions. "They haven't played as well since and I think they're starting to worry," said Kearns, who predicts the Cup favorites will be bidding au revoir in the quarter-finals. The Wallabies' Cup-winning coach of '99, Rod Macqueen, questioned whether the Blacks had the versatility to play more than one style. French mentor Bernard Laporte has accused them of playing...
...BODY OF WAR It happens that Sept. 11 always falls in the middle of the Festival, and Toronto has lately scheduled political films on that solemn anniversary. This documentary, co-directed by pioneer U.S. talk-show host Phil Donahue, traces the postwar life of Iraq vet Tomas Young, paralyzed by a bullet to the spine, and the congressional debate over the occupation...
After the athletic department received a number of complaints about the scheduling, Nichols Family Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise asked Murphy if he would consider moving the game to appease fans. He then approached Brown coach Phil Estes with the same proposal, Murphy said, and both coaches agreed...
...the 5-ft. 6-in. (1.68 m) shortstop listened to manager Casey Stengel, who told him he'd be a better shoeshine boy than ballplayer when he tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Phil Rizzuto would not have won seven World Series rings, the American League MVP award in 1950 or election to the Hall of Fame. The Yankee great, nicknamed Scooter, then found his voice as a folksy, rambling and partisan Yankee announcer, calling games until...
...BEST KNOWN AS THE guru who launched Nancy Sinatra's career by writing and producing the racy, iconic tune These Boots Are Made for Walkin', a No. 1 hit for Sinatra in 1966. Yet a decade earlier, the work of Lee Hazlewood (below) was drawing attention from a young Phil Spector, who was intrigued by the hit sounds Hazlewood created for teenager Duane Eddy, using a grain elevator to create reverb and twang. The anti-Establishment artist, who helped spur country-pop, shunned fame by escaping to Sweden in the '70s. But by the '90s the master of "cowboy psychedelia...