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...Celtics have won 16 NBA championships, the Bruins five Stanley Cups and the Patriots two Super Bowls. Those were appreciated, but New England's soul belonged to the denizens of Fenway Park. Citizens of Red Sox Nation even came to believe they had been cursed. Baseball may no longer be America's pastime, but it has always been Boston's passion play. And last week the good guys finally triumphed. The Red Sox won the World Series...
...acquired a perfect clubhouse presence. Dissatisfied with his work ethic and production, the Minnesota Twins cut Papi, as Ortiz is known, after the 2002 season. Epstein saw value. "We spoke to a lot of people about David," says the GM. "Everyone said he was part of the heart and soul of that Minnesota team, that he was the kind of guy you'd love playing with...
...usual piratical allure. Director Marc Forster can be lauded for executing a 180, from Monster's Ball to Tinker Bell. And there's a rooting interest in a film that portrays children as children rather than jaded sitcom brats and their adult friend as a generous, guileless soul rather than a sad and unsettling influence--a lost boy himself--like the pop-star resident of another Neverland who at 46 still imagines himself as Peter...
JILL SCOTT THE BOOK: The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours, due in 2005 THE BUZZ: Before she sang neo-soul tunes, Scott was a spoken-word veteran of Philadelphia's boho cafés CRINGEWORTHY VERSE: What does the alley cat do when the unchained dog begins to growl? THE AUDIENCE: Grownup gals who want their groove back
...smutty scenes, of which there are a generous but judicious number (he considered and then omitted a scene involving what he nicely terms, in his courtly Virginia accent, a "gang bang"). But Wolfe's interest is not prurient. His real subject is the nature of identity, of the individual soul (Charlotte's in particular), and whether or not it can survive uncorrupted in the acid storm of sex and alcohol and power and peer pressure into which we ritually plunge our young in the name of higher education. The answer he arrives at is not simple. Some get their comeuppance...