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...Yankees win, well, so much the better. A fitting and glorious way to close an epochal chapter in baseball history. But the town bully doesn't get to gloat...
...boarded a plane at LAX and landed in Amarillo, Texas. Since my upcoming rollicking profile of Charlize Theron (Hollywood is also where you're allowed to shamelessly plug) wasn't due until this week, I had taken a brief hiatus from my showbiz beat to chronicle the latest troubling chapter in America's drug war. In the summer of 1999, 43 residents of Tulia, Texas - a dry little town of less than 5,000 people in the windswept panhandle - were arrested for dealing cocaine. It was the most ambitious drug sting in the history of Swisher County, and there...
Gideon's Crossing is based on the experience of Dr. Jerome Groopman, a professor of immunology at the Harvard Medical School and author of The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness, a chapter from which inspired the pilot. The African-American Gideon may seem far removed from the white, Jewish Groopman, but Attanasio says the scripts needed no changes once cast. Notes Braugher: "Gideon is a three-dimensional man, not because he is African American but because...
...first chapter displays the narrative strategy she will employ throughout. A passage under the heading "My Father Writes" reads, "Rabbi Yochanan Schine, a student of the famous Chatam Sofer, was engaged to Esther Sophie Goldner Herschell, the granddaughter of the chief Rabbi of the British Empire. Esther and Yochanan were my great-great-grandparents. They migrated to Palestine and married in 1837 in Jerusalem." Under the heading "I Write," Eve tells the story of Esther's infatuation, in Jerusalem, with a baker and the nine-year love affair that ensues, with, almost from its inception, her husband's knowledge: "Yochanan...
...Meanwhile, the Napster saga goes on and on. It isn't the first time the recording industry wanted to crack down on technology: as the excellent book Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (written by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton) notes in its chapter on the history of the radio DJ, record companies in the '40s were initally skeptical about the power of radio as a promotional tool, and were afraid it would take away sales. Similarly, when FM stereo was introduced, they were likewise afraid the quality of home taping would make LPs redundant. And yet these obviously...