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...auto mechanic, Madden was born in Minnesota and grew up in Northern California. It was not a plush upbringing: A multi-sport athlete, Madden remembers taping together broken bats from a local semi-pro baseball team to use for batting practice; one of his first jobs was as a caddy. Recruited to play football at the University of Oregon, he transferred out after his first year and eventually ended up at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1958, Madden suffered a career-ending knee injury during training camp...
...problem. The play knows where it's going; the problem is getting there. Three apparently unrelated men gather in a seedy motel room to plan a murder. Yet the first act is padded out with mostly aimless talk; only in the second act, when the three return after the semi-botched operation, do we learn what's on Wallace's mind. The men's target, it seems, is the chief executive of a chemical company that has been polluting the waters and sickening workers. It's nice to find a small-bore character drama with a big social agenda...
...penned the screenplay for “Bugsy”—the Oscar-winning 1991 film about celebrity gangster Bugsy Siegel’s ventures in Vegas—and he wrote and directed “The Harvard Man,” a semi-autobiographical account of an epic sophomore year LSD trip. According to Toback, when Tyson first met him, he recognized him as “that white guy in the middle of the orgies at Jim Brown’s house.” Somewhat ironically, Toback awards Tyson a gaze...
...team has climbed as high as No. 73 nationally this season and boasts the abilities of the 2008 Ivy League Player of the Year, senior Peter Capkovic. “[Capkovic] and [Clayton] have had battles, between a couple of the top players in the region, getting to the semi-finals of the regional championships,” Fish said. “It’s going to be tough.” Saturday’s match with Penn is equally far from straightforward. While the Quakers hold the unwelcomed label of Ivy League cellar-dwellers...
...first race has Dom tooling down a circuitous highway while Letty hangs by a strap on the back of a huge semi speeding just in front of him. (It's just as well Rodriguez isn't at the wheel; as fans of thesmokinggun.com know, the actress does not have an exemplary driving record.) Letty manages to slip into Dom's car just before the truck crashes and explodes. But the semi hasn't completed its mischief: it starts tumbling toward them. With no escape, Dom guns his car toward the truck, which, following the physical laws of action movies...