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...school in Rye, a suburb of New York City, to look around, and that night his principal called to say they wanted him to audition in Manhattan. "I wasn't so excited," he says, "but I went anyway. There were 200 of us in the first tryout. Mr. Benton called each of us in and asked questions like 'Do you have a sister?' and 'Do you like the movies...
...game as played by directors, producers and studios is neither good nor bad; as Epstein observes, previewing and then fixing a film is "like taking a play out of town for a tryout." All's well that ends well as long as the picture does well at the box office. Epstein, for one, boasts that he would rewrite Shakespeare: "I think the worst ending in the world is Hamlet. There is too much blood. There should have been a few less corpses." It looks as if Coppola has been won over to that less-is-more outlook...
...mile deep. While it has almost no vegetation save for patches of glistening silversword, the crater is dotted with rose-tipped cinder cones, evidence of minor eruptions over the centuries. It resembles nothing so much as a lunar landscape, and indeed was used as an off-off-planet tryout by the astronauts who made the first moon landing. The center of a 28,000-acre national park, Haleakala can be traversed by shanks' mare or mule train, a three-day mountain high...
...junior, Andrews suffered a poor tryout and was relegated to the J.V. squad. But captain Barney Cook's broken jaw opened a spot on the lineup and coach Cleary chose Andrews to fill the need for a center...
...upset as I've ever been, because this was my senior year. I had a lot of confidence built up in myself after my junior season. I came back to school in great shape, had a great tryout and had visions of playing second or third line. When I found out I was cut it was tough," Andrews recalled...