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Bill Smithson isn't smiling anymore.
The urbane sales manager, who seemed to be almost enjoying himself during the early days of his trial, was dabbing sweat from his blanched face yesterday afternoon in a packed Delaware County courtroom.
Sports
THIS FOR MOST of the evening, was like trying to catch fireflies with your bare hands. The ball, and very nearly the game, was slipping through the 76ers' fingers. And even when they found the light, it wasn't like any diagram anyone might have drawn up.
- 24: REDEMPTION. 8 p.m. Sunday, Channel 29. JACK BAUER (Kiefer Sutherland) isn't the only one out to redeem himself in Sunday's two-hour movie "24: Redemption."
- TATTLE HAS mocked many movie ideas over the years because most of them were unnecessary remakes of films we'd already seen. But this could be a good one.
- SURELY, YOU, like Tattle, thought Benji Madden was The One for Paris Hilton. He didn't look like a Greek god. He wasn't insanely wealthy. He didn't live simply to get his face in a magazine. He didn't seem to care about the difference between a designer label and a Budweiser label.
- The Gizmo: Computer-cleanup services from Norton Danger, danger: "Hmmm, that sounds really bad," tsk-tsked one of the repair "Geeks" at my neighborhood Best Buy store. I'd just described my PC's sluggish response time and a very scary "jet engine taking off" sound that the computer's fan was making, every time I touched a key.
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‘Slumdog Millionaire’: Rags-to-riches tale is outstanding
- "Slumdog Millionaire" is certain to emerge as a leading contender for this year's Best Picture Oscar, despite a mostly unknown cast and some subtitled Hindi dialogue (don't worry, it won't slow you down a bit).
- NOVEMBER IS the official start of the cooking season, when the stress of preparing for Thanksgiving fades into the panic of Christmas and Hanukkah and, ultimately, the resignation to (or reservations for) New Year's.
- WITH THE Wall Street bailout, Main Street mess, unprecedented mortgage foreclosures, a fallen stock market, a credit freeze, and record unemployment have many Americans feeling there is nothing much to be thankful for this year.
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