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Will Tiger Ever Make Another Putt?
I heard Frank Deford on NPR talking about why we continue to follow Tiger Woods just to see if he can somehow regain his former stroke (“Sweetness & Light: Has Tiger Lost His Roar? If So, Why Do...
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Amy, Adele and Someone Like You
Janis Joplin died at 27. So did Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix. And Kurt Cobain. So too, today, did Amy Winehouse.John Belushi was 33. River Phoenix was 23. Ernest Hemingway was 61.The only time I...
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Finding My ‘Animal House’ Friends
Jim Higley rediscovers the bucket of friends that helped define his life while throwing a toga party or two. Every once in a while my kids have to sit through my lecture about friends. I give it when...
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My First R-Rated Movie with My Dad
Jamie Reidy shares the funny story of the first time he and his father watched an R-Rated movie together: “Animal House.”That Saturday night in 1982 marked an unprecedented moment in Reidy family...
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What Is a Good Man?
Tom Matlack finds that defining goodness is not science, it’s art.The further I get into this good men thing, the less I feel like I know. For quite a while now I have been committed to the idea that...
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A Reel Education: What My Father Taught Me at the Movies
I’ve learned the most from my dad when we’re sitting in the dark with our mouths closed, my head on his shoulder as the opening credits flicker into place. —My father and I are serious about movies....
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When She Says It’s Over It’s Over
Better to accept reality than become The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave.—Back in the early days of Saturday Night Live John Belushi played “The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave,” a party guest who overstayed his...
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