Word: steve
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...Steve Goodman, a cancer patient and avid Chicago cubs fan, once wrote a song called "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request," in which he says that his ideal funeral would be in a ballpark...
...Steve Goodman's sentiments, while morbid, could not have better described the game of baseball. I now know why John Sterling didn't care what the weather was like, or even if the Yankees won the game or not. It was all about baseball...
...STEVE FORBES, you've just blown $30 million running for President! What are you going to do now? How about acting as host on a flailing late-night comedy show that's always making fun of you? In one of those counterintuitive decisions that characterize true mavericks, Forbes, whose stage presence never exactly sparkled during the campaign, will be the host on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Says Forbes: "I wanted to see if I could do a better impersonation of me than they were doing." No sketches are yet in place, but rumor has it New Jersey Governor Christine...
...fully anticipate the wrath of several generations of possessive children when we declare that the new Disney film of James and the Giant Peach is an improvement on Roald Dahl's 1961 backyard fantasy. Director Henry Selick and his team of screenwriters (Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts, Steve Bloom) and technical specialists have given the story balance and emotional heft. Mixing stylized live action with stop-motion animation, they have reconciled the tale's realistic and surreal elements and, in five sprightly Randy Newman tunes, made the story sing...
...movie mixes grunge and glitter in the way of a Steven Bochco TV show, which is understandable, since director Gregory Hoblit has won a bunch of Emmys for his work on Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law. The script, by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman, also partakes of Bochco's strengths and limitations--good dialogue, firmly etched secondary characters (nicely played by John Mahoney and Frances McDormand, among others) but not much suspense. The only potentially scary guy--Edward Norton's weirdo defendant--is safely behind bars most of the time. Diverting without being fully absorbing, this is a film...