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Appearances matter--and mostly due to wardrobe. "Pretty" or "plain," "skinny" or "plump," changing how one dresses will do much to radically shape the reactions of others...
...State's high school basketball tournament was winner-take-all, no matter how big the team or how small. Not now: Some geniuses decided that it would be more sporting to break the tourney into divisions, based on school size. David vs. David, Goliath vs. Goliath. No more Bobby Plump, whose buzzer-beater in 1954 gave tiny Milan High (enrollment 161) the state title and a hallowed place in local legend...
...Luckily, Bobby Plump springs eternal in Hoosiers (1986). Based on that 1954 miracle and starring Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper, and someone named Maris Valainis as team hero Jimmy Chitwood, this movie will melt the most cynical of hearts and have you out shooting baskets in the middle of the night. The institution it glorified is changed forever, but Hoosiers remembers. Watch it every spring...
...Watch the games. Rewind the tapes. And if you're ever in Indianapolis, stop in for a bite at Bobby Plump's Last Shot. The food is inspirational...
...July afternoon, Paul Simon was fiddling with dials on a control panel in a cramped recording studio in midtown Manhattan. With most of his hair gone and his plump face inching toward jowly, the pop troubadour, 56, has reached unmistakable middle age. But the mellow, yearning voice coming through the sound system has changed little: "I was born in Puerto Rico/ Came here when I was a child..." Simon was preparing the mix for a song from The Capeman, his new musical that recounts a bloody tabloid crime from the 1950s, explores questions of guilt and redemption and introduces...