'Sex and the City' has been a pop-culture phenomenon, the first cable series to win the Emmy for outstanding comedy and a show that decidedly has tapped into the Zeitgeist, but its charms have always eluded me. Maybe I've just had the bad luck to always tune in when a dodgy episode is on, but I've never heard Kim Cattrall, who plays voracious man-eater Samantha, say anything half as funny on the show as the first line of her Golden Globe Award...
Quote of the All-Star Break came from none other than Curt Schilling, who described his visit to Cleveland's Jacobs Field as "almost like getting back to the big leagues."That was no slam at Cleveland. Schilling was sufficiently impressed by what he saw and moved by the reception from Tribe fans to add Cleveland to his growing list of acceptable trade destinations. But Dave Montgomery, the new Phils CEO, insists the plan is to rebuild around Schilling....
She left in a car.It's a threadbare clue, but it's the only one detectives have in the disappearance of a clerk from an east Orange County convenience store. Deborah Poe, 26, could voluntarily have walked through a wood slat fence behind the store and into a waiting car. Or an assailant could have dragged her. Detectives just don't know.A bloodhound picked up her scent outside the rear of the Circle K at Hall Road and Aloma Avenue where she vanished...
Feb. 2--WHAT'S BIG AND WHITE AND EMPTY ALL OVER? The Bubbler likes the name of the newly formed company -- Ivory Tusk LLC -- that is buying the former downtown Marshall Field's building.William Orenstein, whose Williams Development Corp. is a principal in Ivory Tusk, assured Bubbler that the company's name doesn't mean the vacant, 600,000-square-foot Field's building is a white elephant. Instead, the name indicates the...
On the phone, Jack Blanchards voice sounds almost courtly, like a well-to-do character from a Tennessee Williams play. This, he points out, is odd because hes from New York.Then, preparing to meet Blanchard, I look in a few books on music for some background and discover a picture of him and Misty Morgan from about 1970 that, well, lets just say it was quite a snapshot of the times miniskirt, boots, big pile of hair for her, medallion, tinted glasses and some, ahem, groovy clothes for him....