Word: troy
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...fall of 1997, when Staph arrived at Harvard, he already had a long line ahead of him at tailback. Crimson great Chris Menick 99, Troy Jones 99 and Damon Jones 00, were just some of the talented backs ahead of Staph on the depth chart...
...DIED. TROY DONAHUE, 65, hunky, fleetingly adored studio star of the late '50s and early '60s; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. The blond, blue-eyed onetime Columbia University journalism student catapulted to matinee-idol status with a lead role in the 1959 teen love story A Summer Place, opposite Sandra Dee. Donahue abused drugs and drink as his career declined in the 1970s, but sobered up before appearing in such low-budget films as Bad Blood (1989) and John Waters' Cry-Baby...
...Nigro, then president of the Brooklyn Chess and Checkers Club, befriended the eight-year-old Fischer at a chess exhibition. He taught the boy for three years, but Fischer found a new tutor when his skills surpassed Nigro's. Fischer dedicated his first book to Nigro. DIED. TROY DONAHUE, 65, teenage idol in the 1950s and '60s who rose to fame after playing Sandra Dee's boyfriend in the 1959 film A Summer Place; in Santa Monica, California. Donahue was admired more for his beachboy good looks than his acting abilities, and his career fizzled. He battled alcohol and drug...
...hard for an actor to go wrong if he's true to the words August Wilson has written. When I played Troy Maxson in Fences on Broadway in 1987, the speeches simply guided themselves, they're so well constructed. August was a poet before he became a playwright, and poetry is still part of the language his characters speak. You don't always hear people talk like that in real life, but you wish you could...
Those family confrontations--when the mighty forces that August gathers on the stage clash, either with words or with action--are the scenes that are hard to shake. Just look at Troy. The way he bashes his soul against other souls is illuminating. I always felt he was one of those characters I wish I had really known. August says that when he writes he leaves some blood on the page. You can't get that stuff out of yourself without hurt. It's not therapy; it's more like revelation. He often talks about the pain of writing...