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Best Boys

The Question: What's a "best boy" in film credits, and why is there never a "best girl"? The Answer: The best boy is the gaffer's assistant.…

Brewer's: Boy

in sailor language has no reference to age, but only to experience in seamanship. A boy may be fifty or any other age. A crew is divided into able seamen, ordinary seamen, and boys or…

Baby Boy

Director/Writer:John SingletonColumbia; R; 129 minutesRelease:6/01Cast:Tyrese Gibson, A.J. Johnson, Ving Rhames Ten years after his landmark film Boyz N the Hood, writer-director John…

About a Boy

Directors:Paul and Chris WeitzWriters:Paul and Chris Weitz, Peter HedgesUniversal Pictures; PG-13; 101 minutesRelease:5/02Cast:Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult About a…

Jim the Boy

Author:Tony EarleyLittle Brown Earley, the acclaimed author of Here We Are in Paradise, brings out his much anticipated first novel. Much praised by literary litmus-testers Granta and The…

Waiting

Waiting“My wife, I have bad news for thee,” said Professor Bhaer, coming in one day early in January.“Please tell it at once. I can't bear to wait, Fritz,” cried Mrs Jo, dropping her work and…

Huckleberries

HuckleberriesThere was a great clashing of tin pails, much running to and fro, and frequent demands for something to eat, one August afternoon, for the boys were going huckleberrying, and…

Naughty Nan

Naughty Nan"Fritz, I've got a new idea," cried Mrs. Bhaer, as she met her husband one day after school. "Well, my dear, what is it?" and he waited willingly to hear the new plan, for some of…

Stepping-Stones

Stepping-StonesWhen Nat went into school on Monday morning, he quaked inwardly, for now he thought he should have to display his ignorance before them all. But Mr. Bhaer gave him a seat in…

Brewer's: Good Form, Bad Form

Comme il faut, bon ton; mauvais ton, comme il ne faut pas. Form means fashion, like the Latin forma. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Good FridayGood Folk A…