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...York City chess prodigy, but he was always, and mainly, a kid. He loved baseball, basketball, reading, horsing around -- normal boy stuff. He also sat up nights pondering the 64 squares. He watched gaunt gladiators play speed chess for drug money in Washington Square Park in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. He studied with Pandolfini and played tournaments under the loving, sometimes jealous, eye of his journalist father Fred. By his eighth birthday, Josh was the top-ranked player of his age. Today, at 16, he still is. And the 1984 book Fred wrote about Josh is now a motion picture...
Barnes & Noble, Manhattan...
...mission to conquer Earth, a spaceship from Remulak crash-lands in Manhattan's East River. So the Coneheads must make do in the land of the Bluntskulls. They make better than do. Despite their three rows of teeth and their tendency to use condoms as chewing gum, Beldar and Prymaat and their earthborn daughter Connie (Michelle Burke) adapt splendidly to New Jersey suburban life. For this is the Conehead version of that familiar Hollywood fable, the grelbon out of pluvarb (bird out of water -- there are no fish on Remulak...
...marriage." And so NBC picks a fight with flush CBS over comic ideas that were hackneyed when Letterman started using them; call it banalimony. That surely describes the high-level mud wrestling over De Forest's Melman. "If you have an actor who's a bumbler," asks Manhattan attorney Stanley Rothenberg, "do you prevent him from earning his living after this series is over? Do you say he can't go and bumble elsewhere...
...native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Freeh graduated from both college and law school at Rutgers University, then joined the FBI as a field agent. He was a prime investigator in the bureau's successful penetration of waterfront rackets from Miami to Manhattan, once working undercover at a health club to eavesdrop on suspects' conversations. Later, as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, he handled prosecution of the case, which resulted in more than 100 convictions...