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Johnny Cash: Gone Girl (Columbia). Much the best Johnny Cash album in years, and a necessary reminder that country music doesn't have to be slick to get unsentimental, doesn't have to bluster to hang tough. An album full of sur prises: some topnotch Cash originals; a country cover of the Stones' No Expectations; a little lyrical autobiography; and a 3%-min. Bildungsroman called The Gambler, in which the worldly title character hands down a little useful guidance to the youthful narrator: "Every hand's a winner/ Just like every hand's a loser...
...offered fatter deals than Philadelphia. But Rose was friendly with some Phillies stars and wanted to stay in the National League so that he could chase down Stan Musial's record of 3,630 career hits (Rose now has 3,164), and he fancied the Phils' billiard-slick artificial turf, which will help his ground balls whiz past infielders. Perhaps most of all, he delighted in the challenge of making the talented also-rans of a town of renowned losers into a winner. Proclaimed Charlie Hustle: "I think I can put them over the top. The team needs...
...parents split up (his father died alone in a Lynn hotel six years later, his mother lived until 1977), and he moved with his mother to Richmond, 16 miles away. The Richmond High School 1949 yearbook shows a handsome young man with slick black hair, staring ahead with a slight smile. That year, at 18, he married Marceline Baldwin, a nurse whom he had met at the hospital where they both worked...
...innocence of that time with an enjoyable, if sometimes unfocused, energy. Moving through the standard '60s-musical formula of boy-meets-girl, boy-and-girl-fall-in-love, boy-and-girl-fall-out-of-love, and boy-beats-world-and-marries-girl -- all to the accompaniment of Loesser's slick score -- the Kirkland House cast manages to create a fun evening in the face of some almost overwhelming obstacles...
Another home-grown Los Angeles star, Lopes was perhaps closest to Gilliam of all the Dodgers. In Game 1, he played with a vengeance. For all the intricate meshing of team play in baseball -the lightning ballet of the double play, the slick-quick coordination of a relay from the outfield-the sport remains a game of individual skills. Lopes produced the first of a string of great individual performances in this 75th World Series. He crashed two home runs into the bleachers in left center, the last a screamer that was still on the rise when it rifled into...