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After a Cosgriff wild pitch allowed Hayden to take third and Wayne Russo walked, the Rams put on the exact same double-steal play with the same result. Farkes again cut off Lentz’s throw but was unable to fire the ball home in time to beat Hayden and the Rams went...
...SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE," say the lucky ones who were. Of all the ball games, concerts and other live performances that go by the boards every day, a precious few live on. You probably have your own personal favorites: that wild day your home team finally won the Big One; the night in Jersey when the Boss was really on; the time you wandered into some jazz joint to find Coltrane at his peak. Then there are some we might all agree on--moments that marked a new phase in the arts or new heights of athletic achievement. We offer...
Matt Dillon is used to strange props showing up in his movies. After all, there was the questionable, er, hair gel that several actors sported in There's Something About Mary and the man-eating crocodile that finished off his character in Wild Things. But neither of those compare to the pesky monkeys that tormented Dillon during the filming of his directorial debut, City of Ghosts, a crime drama set mostly in Cambodia and scheduled to open on April 25 in the U.S. "We had to smuggle in a monkey from Thailand for some scenes, because our Cambodian monkey...
...Ghosts in the early 1990s while vacationing in Southeast Asia, where he met a slew of grizzled expatriates with shady pasts. Later, an International Herald Tribune story about felons hiding out in Cambodia due to its lack of extradition treaties further sparked his imagination. Working with writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart), he penned a noirish yarn about a Manhattan yuppie (played by Dillon) embroiled in a major insurance scam who travels to Phnom Penh and reunites with his mentor, portrayed by James Caan (The Godfather). The plot follows Dillon's character through sweat-soaked brothel scenes, all-night temple...
...Checkpoint Charlie, at night was a dismal place. It was bitter cold, fly infested and the sporadic incoming mortar round made it hard for those so inclined to sleep. Two dead Iraqi soldiers were only 20 yards from the position and Hodges ordered them removed immediately, but not before wild dogs had already gorged on them...