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...Greenthumb, Johnny Appleseed and Mel Brooks (not their real names) are part of a select Harvard circle: students who grow their own marijuana. Hidden inside their closets (their real closets), the plants offer them a relaxing, educational hobby and a good high...
...MEL has taken a different route to his pot-growing. That is, he hasn't been successful. Inspired by the success of Tom and Johnny and a recent cover story in the New York Times Magazine about the technology of growing marijuana, Mel started his first crop in February. The plants wilted and died one by one. "I think I overwatered them," Mel says. Nevertheless, he smoked their remains...
...would be unfair not to mention the talented cinematographer, Luciano Tavoli, and production designer, Mel Bourne, whose impacts on the film are crucial. New York is never as believable in color as it is in black and white, but rarely does it come across this well. From the vast auto yard in Queens to the perfect strip club, 'Baby Cakes,' New York has never looked more like, well, New York...
...play." So Hoffman jumped the fence and in 1991 founded Child Support Enforcement; today his firm employs eight full-time investigators on some 3,000 cases. Hoffman's backround as a high public official is unusual; the business runs more to seasoned debt collectors such as Find Dad's Mel Shaw, who will say, straight-faced, of a projected quarry, "I' m his worst nightmare. I'll be on him like a new coat of paint." They employ standard investigative techniques, but once they find their man, they have more resources than the average bill collector. Armed with a court...
Whatever the outcome of this year's tournament, the real winner is the sport, which--23 years after Title IX mandated equal opportunities for women--has come into its own without sacrificing ethics. "For years," says Greenberg, "I took a lot of ridicule for covering the women: 'Hey, Mel, what's it like in a girls' locker room?'- stupid stuff like that. But now my friends talk about Rebecca Lobo the way they did last year about Grant Hill. We're finally getting some respect here...