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...Wave, which eschewed outer space for the more immediate world. "I haven't written any science fiction since the 1960s," Ballard says from his home in the London exurb of Shepperton, where he has lived for 45 years. "I just write what I see happening. I'm a weatherman, trying to forecast what's ahead." In the case of Kingdom Come, Ballard had to look no farther than Shepperton, hard by the M25 and Heathrow. "I've seen the southeast of England transformed from a realm of Georgian restorations, Gothic quadrangles and village greens into a world of motorways, surveillance...
Contemplating an annual vacation but dreading the crowds of tourists packing every airport, piazza and esplanade? Then take heart, for there is an alternative to overbooked hotels and long amusement-park queues. It's called low season. The weatherman may not be able to promise perfection, but low season is the time of year when the crowds are thin, the experience is purely local and the price is right. Forget Paris in the springtime, and check out these off-peak havens instead...
...deliver the forecast on the Weather Channel this week. "I'll just be doing what I do best, yelling and screaming about something no one has any control over," says Black, who appears on the cable network's Evening Edition. Black notes that David Letterman started as a weatherman in Indiana. "Both jobs," he says, "are about making palatable the fact that the next five days are going to be miserable." Luckily, the comedian already has plenty of weather jokes in his act: "In Arizona they have monsoons, a wall of sand followed by water. That's not weather, that...
...Weather Man” strives to be a pie of substance and succeeds to a certain degree; with its sense of humor and light social commentary, it certainly avoids the vapidity of fast food. Nicolas Cage plays Dave Spritz, an overpaid, oversexed, and unloved Chicago weatherman coming apart at the seams. He’s recently split with his wife, Noreen (Hope Davis), his kids are troubled, and people keep throwing food at him. When his father (Michael Caine) is diagnosed with cancer, Spritz takes it as a sign he has to get his life in order; he starts with...
...then, after high school, Smith moved 50 miles west along the Connecticut coast to Yale, where he would study geology and geophysics with hopes of becoming a weatherman. Baseball began to drift away...