Varsity Blues. Whitehouse Looks To Continue Run. 3 May 2008
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Coach Alicia Crawford describes the atmosphere surrounding Whitehouse softball as “exciting,” stemming from the team’s historic progress this season. Perhaps it contrasts the LadyCats’ collective mood following their last two trips to the playoffs. Each time, they experienced “a long bus ride home.” Not all that exciting. This weekend, Whitehouse will be an outing removed from the first postseason win in school history.
The LadyCats (18-6) meet fifth-ranked McKinney Boyd (20-6-2) in a Class 4A best-of-3 area series. Game 1 is scheduled for 7:30 tonight in McKinney. The series will shift to Whitehouse for Game 2 on Saturday (5 p.m.) and, if necessary, Game 3 (30 minutes afterward). “It’s a huge mental relief,” Crawford said of earning a postseason victory, which occurred last week against Lindale, 5-1. “I think it takes a lot of pressure off the girls because I knew they had the talent to get past them. … Whitehouse has had a softball team for over a decade and they have played well in district; it was just a struggle to get that first playoff win.” The postseason blues of recent seasons came via one-run defeats.
Isabella Rossellini. Last year, the festival took a poll of viewers’ favorite films. 3 May 2008
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Even the silliest titles are laced with seriousness. “My Fuehrer” (5 p.m. May 8, Birmingham; 8 p.m. May 13, Commerce Township) finds a silly Adolf Hitler near the end of World War II, freeing his former acting teacher from a concentration camp so the dictator can regain some of his charisma.
Like most documentaries about comedians, “Making Trouble” (8 p.m. May 7, Birmingham; 8 p.m. May 11, Commerce Township) offers bittersweet portraits of famous female performers like Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers and Gilda Radner.
