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...young men from the ghetto shaking out their frustrations by playing a kind of attack basketball -- all high-bouncing dazzle, nasty elbows and insults that come at you in rap rhythm. Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) intrudes into this essentially black world with intent to hustle (gambling on these pickup games is heavy). Maybe WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP, but in all other respects he's a fully qualified player -- except possibly in the brains department. But smart Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) has enough wit for both men, and after initial edginess they form a winning (and profitable...
...country performers looked just like them." And cable executives discovered what they had already suspected -- that, in Werner's words, "a country music fan is not over 60 and does not wear bib overalls, drink Lone Star beer from a long-stemmed bottle and drive a 20-year-old pickup with a shotgun rack in the back...
...from nearby Darien, says, "It's the only place I can be in public and show my feelings." And now that promiscuity is out, says Gary Marcinkowski, 25, who owns a Buffalo-area painting business, the atmosphere in a country bar offers another advantage: "It's less of a pickup scene...
...streets are controlled by pickup trucks carrying antiaircraft guns and young men -- some barely in their teens -- with Kalashnikov rifles. Their eyes are bright with the drug called kat, their fingers quick on the trigger. Makeshift hospitals dot the city; the existing ones were looted long ago. The wounded must bring their own beds, so most end up lying on the floor, a weeping relative holding aloft their intravenous solution -- when it is available. Somali doctors and foreign volunteers move so quickly from patient to patient that trails of blood pattern the floors...
Twyla Tharp is back in more ways than one. Having stopped dancing at 45, she is performing again at 50. Having lost her company in the toils of the recession, she has organized a new pickup group, with some of the sleek dancers on loan from other troupes. And Tharp is also talking. Not quite an unprecedented situation for this iconoclastic choreographer, but an unusual one. In Men's Piece, the highlight among four premieres, she tells what is on her mind about men and women and the dance they must do through life together, illustrated by duets with Kevin...