FEATURES
May 29, 2004
June 6 will be the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that was a turning point in World War II. The World War II Memorial Dedication (2 p.m.-3:30 p.m., History Channel) is the first of several specials related to that observance. The coverage is live from Washington. At a glance WNBA Basketball (4 p.m.-6 p.m., WMAR, Channel 2) - The Detroit Shock became the first team in American pro sports to go from having the worst record to champs a year later when they beat the Los Angeles Sparks in the decisive third game the league championship.
SPORTS
By Don Markus and Don Markus,SUN STAFF | July 18, 1998
SOUTHPORT, England -- Normalcy returned to the 127th British Open yesterday at Royal Birkdale. The second round was a meteorological roller coaster, beginning with rain, ending with sun and interspersed with 30-mph winds as well as a little sleet that briefly suspended play.The weather also caused havoc somewhere else -- on the leader board.First-round co-leader Tiger Woods, who felt the brunt of the front moving in off the Irish Sea, started at 5-under and fell to even par through 15 holes.
NEWS
By MICHAEL SRAGOW and MICHAEL SRAGOW,SUN MOVIE CRITIC | October 23, 2005
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN HAS always had something extra behind the eyeballs: a glint of high or lowdown wit, a surfeit of mischief or creative energy. A prize supporting actor for more than a decade, he's played everything from a droll oversize preppie with an annoying sense of truth, in The Talented Mr. Ripley, to a sleazy tabloid reporter who gets a flaming sendoff from a serial killer, in the Hannibal Lecter thriller, Red Dragon. In three dozen films, playing big men who move with misguided confidence or sometimes genuine grace, Hoffman had become an heir to the great Hollywood character actors -- the kind that audiences loved seeing even if they couldn't instantaneously recall the performers' names.
FEATURES
By Anthony Scaduto and Anthony Scaduto,Newsday | January 9, 1994
Bruno Richard Hauptmann could hardly have foreseen how prophetic his close-to-final words would become when he uttered them on the night of April 3, 1936, shortly before being escorted to the electric chair in the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton.Hauptmann, in the oddly syntaxed and sometimes poetic way he had of speaking, told his minister, "They think when I die, the case will die. They think it will be like a book I closed. But the book, it will never close."More than a half century later, the book in the Lindbergh kidnapping case remains open.
SPORTS
July 17, 1992
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Dan Halldorson birdied three of the last four holes to finish with a 9-under-par 63 for the first-round lead.Halldorson, whose best finish this year is a tie for 10th at the St. Jude Classic, played the front nine in 5-under. He did not have a bogey and leads John Huston and Mitch Adcock by two strokes.Halldorson birdied No. 15 with a 15-foot putt, No. 16 with a 45-footer and the par-5 18th from four feet."At 16 I was just trying to get the ball close," Halldorson said.
FEATURES
By Lou Cedrone | September 20, 1990
* ''Funny About Love'' Gene Wilder is a cartoonist who falls in love with a caterer, divorces her then tries to win her back. Christine Lahti co-stars. A drama with comedy.* ''GoodFellas'' Martin Scorsese's film version of Nicholas Pileggi's ''Wiseguy'' is the story of a boy who dreamed of being part of the mob and saw that dream come true. A drama with comedy. Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta star.* ''Narrow Margin'' Gene Hackman is a district attorney who has to protect a federal witness from professional killers.