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...drab, workaday timetable. No self-respecting Madrileno would think of lunching before 2 p.m., or returning to the office before 4. Matinees in Madrid begin at 7 p.m.. evening performances at 11. The cocktail hour starts at 8:30, and until he sits down to his supper at some undeterminable time after 10 p.m., the Spaniard believes it is still afternoon...
...infancy, the townsfolk of Wakefield in Yorkshire were told that their annual Whitsun-week cycle of 32 mystery plays could no longer portray "God the Father, God the Sonne or God the Holie Ghoste or the administration of either the Sacra ments of baptisme or of the Lordes Supper." This effectively banned the plays altogether-as was intended by Queen Elizabeth I, who was determined to break the hold of Roman ritual on English minds...
...further slowed by Brando's perfectionism. With a cast and crew on full salary, he sat for hours beside the Pacific Ocean and waited for the waves "to become more dramatic." For a drunk scene, he chugalugged a pint of vodka, got sincerely stoned and reportedly lost his supper - but kept the footage...
Everywhere that Oscar went, the ball was sure to go. He early became a basketball perfectionist. Nothing stopped his dribbling practice-eating supper, watching TV, reading. "I've got to control it," he would tell his brother Bailey, who later became good enough himself to win a spot on the Harlem Globetrotters. "I've got to control the dribble." Recalls his mother: "You couldn't sleep at night with that basketball going all the time. Bump! Bump! Bump...
...Conspicuous as a herd of giraffes, the N.B.A.'s big men have learned to cope with an alien world of threatening doorframes and ridiculously small chairs. At night they drape their feet over suitcase racks placed at the ends of their Hollywood-style hotel beds. After a game, supper may be a piece of pumpkin pie served on a cardboard plate on the way to the airport. The players gulp it down, then plunge into sleep, mouths slack, heads banging against frosty windows. Says Robertson: "Whenever you get a chance to sleep, you just got to close your eyes...