Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next planned musical, is about Leo Frank, the Jewish factory worker who was lynched in Atlanta in 1915 after being convicted of murdering a 13-year-old girl), but nearly all commanding attention. Ragtime is getting an extraordinary transcontinental buildup. The show is already a big hit in Toronto, and a second company has just opened in Los Angeles. By the time the show marches to Broadway in December, there will doubtless be few left who aren't eagerly anticipating the next Great American Musical...
...crucial factor, then Jordan's five championships in seven years--thanks to his 39 points in Game 6 on Friday night--trumps everyone who wasn't a Celtic or a Yankee. Jordan's only competition, really, is Ruth. Bobby Mattick, the 86-year-old scout for the Toronto Blue Jays, says, "Bill Essick, who signed Joe DiMaggio, once told me that nobody was better than Ruth. Frankly, I have an easier time imagining Jordan playing in the majors than I do Ruth running up and down the floor in the N.B.A." If an athlete is judged by charisma, then...
...movie is set in South Boston, but most was already filmed in Toronto...
...means that either tomorrow or Thursday, I've got to go cold turkey on ferry sinkings, militia uprisings and men biting dogs. But what about those jolly bits that the media throw in so you won't despair entirely? For instance, last week Reuters reported that a fellow in Toronto walked into a bank lobby carrying a live goose. Sounds like a joke ("Gimme a 20-year, fixed-rate mortgage, and one for my friend here"). But no; guy actually says, "Give me some money, or I'll kill this goose." So a lady gets money...
...club, his team, his Celtics. It seems like all of my great Boston sports heroes are moving on. McHale is doing great work with the Timber-wolves. Ainge is with the Suns. The Chief is working towards another NBA title in Chicago. Roger Clemens moved on to Toronto. Why couldn't they all just stick around and bring back Boston's slumping professional sports...