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...with high-priced talent and watching it capture a World Series title after only five years in existence, is selling the Fish. The interested party is reportedly an ownership group that includes a sizable Hispanic contingent ? an important selling point in South Florida ? headed by current team president Don Smiley...
...Smiley says he is two-thirds of the way toward reaching Huizenga's asking price, which is believed to be $150 million. Huizenga says he has 30 days to stump up the cash. If successful, the new owners' next order of business will be securing that public-financed, retractable-roof ballpark on the Miami waterfront...
...Stadium or no, for a few years at least Smiley may feel he's bought himself a Florida lemon ? no manager, no superstars, no farm system. But just wait until Castro dies...
...referring to her technique in movies that are adapted from novels. "I'll just take every page of the novel that refers to my part and paste it to the corresponding page in the script." When the novels in question are such highly regarded works as Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres and Henry James' Washington Square, which open within a few weeks of each other, this strategy can be a little intimidating for the directors. The two movies allowed Leigh to play the devoted but misunderstood daughter of two men she knew as a child: Jason Robards...
...sober realism of her style that redeemed the novel, its weight and conviction that prevented readers from noticing (or caring) that by replacing noble enigmas with banal behaviorism, Smiley had downsized tragedy to melodrama. The movie version--bereft of diverting literary stratagems, relentlessly focused on what-next narrative--takes it another step down--to soap opera...