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...ranch-style home in a shady Houston enclave quite unlike the middle-class neighborhood where Duncan grew up in Beaumont, Texas. Duncan belongs to the pricey Houston Racquet Club and is an avid golfer and tennis player. These days, though, he's often found working out in the club gym--a solitary figure trying to get through what friends say is the worst period of his life...
Tobey Maguire, as many have noted, is an unlikely action hero. Then again, so is Spider-Man. Maguire's own background as a lonely California kid may have been better preparation for his break-out role as the angst-ridden Spidey than hours in the gym. Before Spider-Man made him internationally famous, Maguire was known as one of Hollywood's go-to actors for troubled-youth parts: a neglected loner in The Ice Storm (1997), a teen yearning for escape in Pleasantville (1998), an orphan searching for a home in The Cider House Rules (1999), a self-destructive college...
...breath. Greiner’s play calls to mind aspects of Drew Gellert—on a very bad day, perhaps, but Gellert nonetheless. Admirably, the Harvard uniforms worn by Greiner and his teammate, played by NBA All-Star Ray Allen, are the real deal, and the gym is an admirable attempt at reproducing Lavietes Pavilion’s stands...
...expanded by the Soviets in the 1980s and currently used as the main in-country base for coalition forces--an air of permanence is taking hold. Soviet-era military debris--from MiG fighters to helmets--is being bulldozed into piles. The runway apron has been extended. Offices and a gym are under construction. The Post Exchange supply shop has begun to accept credit cards. There are even efforts to control the ever-present dust, a fine gray chalk that infiltrates everything--seams, food, mouths--and turns to slime at the slightest hint of rain. And while U.S. officers concede that...
...alleged former head of the notorious “Winter Hill Gang” organized crime group, who is on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. Also along the way is Good Times Emporium, where Cappy used to go to shoot pool, and The World Gym, which Hulk Hogan once visited during Cappy’s childhood...