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Jon Jay (Accidentally?) Fakes A Ground Rule Double, Prevents RunIn the eighth inning of the Cardinals’ NL Central-clinching beatdown of the Pirates, there was a very strange play that I have never seen before....

Back In The Hobbit: <em>The Desolation Of Smaug</em>, Reviewed.Expectations are such tricky things when it comes to movies. Before the first installment in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy debuted at the end of 2001, there was no guarantee that it would go on to become one of Hollywood's most profitable and Academy-approved franchises. Jackson an...

The Deep Breath Before The Plunge. <em>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey</em>, Reviewed.1. It's always important to remember that the first film of any trilogy—particularly one that has to not only introduce a bunch of new characters but take time to remind us of all the people/dwarves/elves/wizards we'd forgotten in the nine years since we last saw them—is always going to be the slowe...

Just Like <em>Heaven's Gate</em>: Why Didn't The <em>Lord Of The Rings</em> Series Fail?

Next week, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens, setting in motion another Tolkien trilogy from director Peter Jackson that will end in the summer of 2014. Everyone's wondering whether these Hobbit movies can live up to the Lord of the Rings films, whose combination of commercial and critical suc...

Note To Starbucks Baristas Everywhere: If You Find Yourself Serving Coffee To Mitch Albom, Spill It On Him

Mitch Albom, America's favorite fun-sized poetastering fabulist, decided to use his Sunday column space in the shrinking Detroit Free Press to whine about America's service workers in the haughtiest fashion possible....

I-Team: Help Us Solve The Mystery Of Mitch Albom's Ears

Tipster Chad D. (or Chadd?) writes in, [sic]s and all:...

The Five Geniuses You Meet In Heaven: Mitch Albom Discovers The Apple Store

After that whole thing about him winning a Red Smith Award that he probably shouldn't have won, Albom's stayed out of the spotlight. Or, wait, no: He's written a play and developed a TNT show. And, somewhere along the way, he found time to visit the Apple Store and write about it....

The <em>New York Times</em> Pushes Up Its Glasses, Issues Nerdiest Correction Ever

I'll just let the Times explain:...