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Curtis Purnell returns the opening kickoff as the official returns to his feet. DAVE FREDERICK PHOTOS Dave Frederick Tail over teakettle - Cape’s Curtis Purnell (2018) returns a kickoff on a Friday night. He is head-over-heels happy, the way it’s supposed to be, but the trailing official is tail over teakettle. And if you’ve ever slipped while carrying a teakettle, don’t expect your afternoon guest sitting by the picture window in the parlor of your house not to laugh. Hats off – pu...

Sacha Baron Cohen moves the needle of history with Borat, Chicago 7

A now-defunct alternative rock band originally founded in Santa Barbara, CA that broke up in 1998. The band members were:Dean Dinning - bass, backup voc...

Our Man in the Stacks Richard Greene NEAR THE END of his sympathetic biography of Graham Greene, Richard Greene (no relation) evokes an “odd tableau” from August 1980, when the author met with El Salvadoran rebels in a Panama City hotel room to negotiate the release of a South African hostage: [W]hile discussing the fate of [kidnapped ambassador] Archibald Dunn, Greene and [rebel leader Salvador] Cayetano sat separated from each other by the bed, on which Greene had earlier laid the page pr...

Am I alone, or is all this social justice-woke nonsense destroying what had been a true golden era of television? | Social Justice Am I alone, or is all this social justice-woke nonsense destroying what had been a true golden era of television?

Sacha Baron Cohen was all set to play radical activist Abbie Hoffman in 2007. Steven Spielberg planned to direct the Aaron Sorkin script of “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” but the writers strike, among other things, scuttled that version of the project. Newsletter Get our Envelope newsletter for exclusive coverage, behind-the-scenes insights and columnist Glenn Whipp’s commentary. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Cohen...

The Top Doctor Who Stories Of The Tom Baker Era The Top Doctor Who Stories Of The Tom Baker Era BBC Longtime fans of the BBC institution Doctor Who all have their favorite actors who have served as the title character. Yet above them all, Tom Baker, who played the fourth Doctor from 1974 to 1981, seems to occupy a space reserved only for the most revered. It is no wonder: Given how the previous Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee, practically saved the series from cancellation with h...

If sarcasm is, as popularly claimed, the lowest form of wit — and that’s debatable if you’ve ever sat through an entire episode of Bridget & Eamon — then the panel show is the cheapest kind of television comedy there is, excepting stand-up. By the standards of TV production budgets, making panel shows is a relatively low-cost business. All you need is a studio, a few desks and chairs, maybe some clips, a live audience (at least in pre-Covid times), a host and a bunch of comedians. Unles...

The first novel in the series, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. The 41st and final installment, The Shepherd’s Crown, was published in 2015, around five months after Pratchett’s death. 2. He was the U.K.’s best-selling author of the ‘90s. In 2003, he was responsible for 3.4% of hardback fiction sales in the U.K. – second only to J.K. Rowling. According to The Independent, he was also considered "Britains most shoplifted author," something he took as a compliment! 3. He h...

  “LEADERSHIP IS BASED ON TRUTH AND CHARACTER. A LEADER MUST HIMSELF BE THE SERVANT OF TRUTH, AND HE MUST MAKE THAT TRUTH THE FOCUS OF A COMMON PURPOSE.” NATO Bernard Law Montgomery: Unbeatable and unbearable all text photos, copyright Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery was one of the most prominent and successful British commanders of the Second World War (1939-45). Known as ‘Monty’, he notably commanded the Allies against General Erwin Rommel in North Africa, and in the invasions...