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...Used gossip mongers for skeet-shooting practice b) Had this military-parade pic released c) Nabbed 18th cover of Iraqi INSTYLE d) Used only the right side of his body...
...years - say, 1954 to '56 - he was everywhere. Besides hosting "The Tonight Show" Allen starred in the bio-pic "The Benny Goodman Story;" he wrote the songs (including "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" and "Impossible") for a TV book-musical "The Bachelor;" he recorded some spoken-word fairy tales with hipster lingo that became hits and a book (the still-funny "Bop Fables"); he published a collection of short stories ("Fourteen for Tonight") and a study of TV comics ("The Funny Men"); he wrote the lyrics for movie themes ("Picnic," "Bell, Book and Candle"); and he started...
...Philly Inquirer leads with "High-Powered Troops Rally Around Bush" but since the politics of protests are local, "Widespread Clashes Disrupt Center City" goes top left with a big pic. Luckily for the GOP, protesters pretty much fall to third in all the biggies but WSJ (which ignores them), with the NYT allowing that cops "gingerly arrested" 280-odd members of the traveling band of gripers. WP is a little more dramatic, getting right to "three police officers were treated when an unknown substance was splashed in their eyes, and a fourth was hospitalized with head injuries after being...
Giving away too much of the plot would spoil the pic's comedic surprises, so I'll give you a barebones outline. Woody Allen plays Ray Winkler, a lowlife, an impractical dreamer, who has to put up with the constant nags of his wife Frenchy (Tracy Ullman). Ray spends his days conjuring schemes - usually illegal ones (he's done some hard time - yes, yes, imagining Woody Allen surviving time in a jail cell is part of the humor, I'm sure). This time, Ray notices that a store next to a bank is up for rent and convinces his friends...
...Well, where's Crash Davis when you need him? The hero of the baseball pic "Bull Durham" was given the task of mentoring a young pitcher named Nuke LaLoosh on how to break into the big leagues. On the eve of Nuke's promotion, Crash coaches him in dealing with the media: Crash: "You're gonna have to learn your clichés. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down, 'We gotta play it one day at a time.'" Nuke: "It's pretty boring." Crash: "'Course...