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DIED. CHUCK GREEN, 78, peerless tap dancer; in Oakland, California. Since the 1940s, the tall, genial Green spoke eloquently with his flashing footwork. Starting out in vaudeville as a child, he kept on performing well into the '90s, appearing on Broadway. Within the closely knit tap world, he was cherished as one of the greatest of the old-time hoofers...
These groups will be rounded out by individual performances of hiphop, jazz and tap...
...that's what's so fun about covering golf. Total anonymity provides for maximum imagination. I've never lied about scores or performances, but it's always fun to embelish: "Choo left his tricky left-to-right twelve-foot birdie putt an inch above the cup and had to tap in for par on the sixteenth hole" is a lot more interesting to write than "Choo parred number...
...eerie echo of Jack Kerouac's rambunctious 1957 novel, On the Road, begins to sound about halfway through The Beach (Riverhead; 371 pages; $23.95), by British writer Alex Garland, 27. The reason it takes half of Garland's moody tale for Kerouac's ghost to tap the reader on the shoulder is that the feel of the two novels could not be more different. On the Road was loony, funny, electric; The Beach is listless, pallid, drifting without object...
...home writing the scripts for the prequels, seem murderously overscheduled. In his role as the sun at the center of the ever expanding Star Wars universe, he signs off on all the various new projects--"They ask me if they can do a book where Yoda tap-dances, and I say yes or no." He claims he has no time to play the video games, and offers an abrupt "No comment" when asked if he reads the novels. Maybe he really is embarrassed by the demands of his creation's success...