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They were the most complete team by the end of the season and could've gone all the way.

Maxwell Caulfield may be a cult legend for his role in “Empire Records,” but his throngs of fans on social media came after he fought through heartbreak in his early career. The 61-year-old actor recalled to Page Six what it was like to be set up for stardom at an early age when he was cast in the lead to the sequel to “Grease” — only to temporarily sink into oblivion when the movie tanked. “It was, psychologically, quite a kick in the pants,” he said. The bitter taste of watching 1982’s “Grease 2” fail was made even worse by seeing his co-star, a then-little-known actress named Michelle Pfeiffer, head on to stardom, he said. “And of course, Michelle rose like a Phoenix, right? Did ‘Scarface,’ and that so that made it even, frankly, a little harder to swallow,” he recalled. “But you know, listen, every actor has his and her own path. She has gone on to multiple Oscar nominations and the rest of it … She delivers and she defines Hollywood beauty…You can’t begrudge them their success. But as I said, simultaneously, it makes it that much tougher to see, that you’ve been benched. And it took a long wait time to come back.” Caulfield says that “I really couldn’t get arrested for about a year” but slowly began to rebuild his career through tv movies, a role on the “Dynasty” spinoff, “The Colbys,” which ran from 1986 to 1987. Eventually, he would find a measure of the success he was looking for with his role as aging music idol Rex Manning in 1995’s “Empire Records.” The movie has become such a cult hit that every April 8 an unofficial Rex Manning Day is observed by throngs of fans on Twitter. The celebration of the film causes Caulfield equal amounts of bewilderment and bemusement. “It goes mental,” he said. “I literally have to put out like a statement because I can’t possibly respond to the sort of floodgates that open. My Twitter account normally is just sort of dormant and then suddenly it goes bonkers. And I want to like everything everybody says. So what I tend to do is I put something out that’s meant to appease the masses.” Most recently, the actor shot an episode of Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story” and is hoping that the prolific producer “gets around to telling the Jeffery Epstein story (and) he considers me (for) Prince Andrew.” He says he met the now infamous royal at a reception in Los Angeles and explains that before the event he had seen the Prince on the local news doing a tour of the Warner Brothers film studio and “doing what royals do, you know, sort of looking and asking questions and sort of smiling and pointing.” When they met, Caulfield admits that he may have been a “little crass” by commenting to Andrew: “You did a wonderful job of feigning interest at Warner Brothers. He said, ‘We don’t.’ And that was the end of my conversation with that.”

With his recent hit culinary quest show, “Searching for Italy,” and food-focused cult films such as 1996’s “Big Night” and 2009’s “Julie & Julia,” Stanley Tucci has established himself as not just an actor but also a serious epicurean. But, in his new memoir, “Taste: My Life Through Food” (Gallery Books), the 60-year-old reveals that he almost lost his love for food after he was diagnosed with an oral cancer four years ago. “There were times when I believed I would never ever be able to cook or enjoy a meal again with the people I love,” writes Tucci, who grew up in a large Italian family in Katonah, NY, and spent a year living in Italy in his early teens. When a dentist first told Tucci that the pain in his mouth might be due to an oral cancer of some sort, he writes that he “was stunned to the point of almost fainting.” Kate, his first wife and the mother of three of his children, died in 2009 after a lengthy battle with breast cancer. He was eventually diagnosed with cancer of the salivary gland and was hesitant to get treatment having seen how painful and ultimately futile it was for Kate. But knowing the cure rate for his type of cancer was nearly 90 percent — and that his current wife, Felicity, was pregnant — he went through it. Doctors initially wanted to remove the tumor at the base of his tongue, but that would have meant losing half his tongue and the ability to speak normally, which wasn’t an option. Chemotherapy and radiation would mean the loss of taste, smell and saliva production, but it would likely only be temporary. For seven weeks, five days a week, he endured radiation treatments that required him to wear a special mask to immobilize his head. His side effects included severe vertigo, nausea and loss of appetite. “After a week of treatments, anything I was capable of putting into my mouth tasted like old wet cardboard,” he writes. “A few days later everything tasted like the same old wet cardboard but slathered with someone’s excrement.” He was also plagued with digestive issues. “The morphine I was given to dull the pain and help me sleep caused such dreadful constipation that at one point I thought it might only be relieved by the use of a mini pipe bomb,” Tucci reveals in the book. While he was getting chemotherapy or required IV fluids, he, somewhat ironically turned to food TV to pass the time. “This was an act of pure masochism, as even just the thought of food disgusted me. In hindsight I suppose it was a way to cling to what I loved or remember what I’d once had because I was so desperate to have it again,” he writes. “I was determined to make myself heal faster.” The treatments left him so weak and emaciated that, he “practically begged to have a feeding tube implanted in my stomach.” It remained there for six months, but even while relying on the tube for sustenance, it was important to Tucci that he ate well. He ultimately eschewed protein shakes in favor of cooking and pureeing the sorts of foods — pasta and beans in broth — he might have eaten in healthier times. “I would struggle through the smell of the ingredients just to be able to stand at the stove and create something I knew I could eat,” he writes. “What it tasted like didn’t matter, as it was going directly into my stomach by way of the tube, but it was important to me that if someone were to eat it by mouth they would find it appetizing.” At that point, he even relied on the feeding tube for water, because if he tried to actually drink water, “It burned like battery acid.” Tucci, who lives in England, underwent treatment in New York. His brother- and sister-in-law, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, let him and his family stay in their Westchester home. Other celeb buddies, including Oliver Platt, Colin Firth, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, were also quite supportive. Reynolds was by Tucci’s side, when, six months after his last treatment, he had a scan that showed “no evidence of disease.” But the side effects persisted. “For over two years my mouth was incredibly sensitive,” Tucci writes. “I couldn’t drink anything carbonated and certainly could not eat anything spicy. I was able to drink and taste alcohol but most stuck to white wine with copious amounts of ice.” Felicity Blunt and Stanley Tucci at the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards in London. He’s also struggled with having limited saliva and being prone to choking, especially with foods such as steak and bread, which proved difficult when filming the first season of his TV show. Yet, such challenges have also made him appreciate the joys of eating and drinking. Tucci writes: “My illness and the brutal side effects of the treatment caused me to realize that food was not just a huge part of my life, it basically was my life.”

You seem to have forgotten that Shea Stadium and Candlestick Park no longer exist.

Many people have written about the amazing accomplishment of the Mariners not being eliminated until the final day despite their fairly substantial negative run differential, and rightly so, as it was an impressive achievement. However, on the other side of the coin, I think it is almost unbelievable that Toronto didn't make it. I know they didn't get to play 'home' games at home until midway through the season, but consider: They made the best-value free-agent signing-- Robbie Ray, who'll win the Cy Young, for $8 mil They made the 2nd-best-value signing-- Marcus Semien, who'll probably be 3rd in the MVP vote They signed the best all-around player-- George Springer, who missed a lot of time, but was very good when he played They basically traded a bag of balls for Steven Matz, who went 14-7, 3.82 They had one of the best rookie pitchers-- Alek Manoah They got the 2nd best starter traded mid-season-- Jose Berrios. After that, their rotation of Ray, Berrios, Manoah, Matz, Ryu was probably the most talented in the league Two relievers they picked up mid-season were lights-out for them-- Adam Cimber & Trevor Richards Vlad tied for the HR title, got pretty close to the triple crown, & will be 2nd in the MVP vote Their offensive core broke out so much that they became the 1st team ever to have 4 players each get their 1st 100-RBI season When they lost their 3rd baseman (Biggio) they replaced him with a kid (Espinal) who hit .311/.376/.405

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One of the most enjoyable broadcasters in baseball retired after yesterday's game. Here's what a Yankee blog said: Ken Singleton, YES broadcaster, is retiring after today’s telecast. Ken’s professionalism, passion, and love for the game of baseball have all been a joy and a privilege to hear over my many years of baseball fandom. Without a doubt, he is my favorite play-by-play announcer in the game and his color commentary is also near flawless. He knows baseball inside and out from a life well-lived in the game. He appreciates the players of today. He is knowledgeable without being a know it all. He is informative without being condescending. He is funny and witty without trying too hard. And, let’s be honest, his voice is a perfect voice for baseball.

A new urban farm on Eastern Parkway hopes to transform a long-vacant lot into a solution for Brooklynites living in the borough’s food deserts. The Eastern Parkway Farm — opened by Bed-Stuy based food pantry The Campaign Against Hunger — will open next week in a property on the Crown Heights and Brownsville border that had previously stood empty for 30 years. The space is the organization’s latest project aimed at bringing nutrient-rich foods to communities often deprived of healthy options. It is the fifth urban farm space run by TCAH. “The Campaign Against Hunger is committed to infusing heart-healthy fruits and vegetables into communities that are far too often overlooked and starved of affordable, nutritious food options,” said CEO Dr. Melony Samuels. “The opening of Eastern Parkway Farm is just the most recent example of our work to advance food justice.” The newest farm, found at 1420 Eastern Pkwy., has been in the works for six months with the help of TCAH’s farm department, volunteers and Green Teens, a group of local youth trained in urban farming. It includes 5,000 square feet of space leased through the city’s Department of Housing, Preservation & Development and will be farmed using all-natural production methods, according to TCAH. Neighbors will find fresh produce like kale, summer squash, red cabbage, chard and raddish in the lot, according to the organization. The Campaign Against Hunger (TCAH) also has a farm in Bedford Stuyvesant, the Saratoga Urban Agro-Ecological Center, which opened in 2009, along with several other food-based initiatives around the city — like another farm in Queens, a food pantry in Bed Stuy, a food distribution center at a Canarsie soundstage donated by the production company Broadway Stages during the pandemic, and a mobile farmer’s market called “Fresh Vibes” that travels across the city in a specially designed truck carrying fresh produce. “People thought I had lost my mind,” said Melony Samuels, CEO and founder of TCAH, at the opening ceremony for Eastern Parkway Farm on Thursday. “They had said it’s not possible that individuals would want to barter or get rid of the canned food and the sweets and the sugar and the salt and everything else. And that’s what birthed the idea of farming, and we were the first organization to have from farm to table.” All three of the areas where the nonprofit has farms are majority Black, a reflection on the group’s goal to reduce inequities in access to healthy food that leave Black New Yorkers at higher risk of diseases like hypertension, diabetes and obesity brought about by unhealthy eating. “Food justice is racial justice, is economic justice,” Assembly Member Diana Richardson said. “Our communities have been disenfranchised for so long. When we talk about social determinants of health, and all that is going on, we know that our community has been shortchanged for so long with access to healthy food. And it shows, it shows in everything that plagues us.” TCAH says that it has provided 25 million meals worth of healthy food to New Yorkers facing food insecurity during the pandemic — six times their output in a normal year. Unlike a community garden, which can be found all over the city (including the Brownsville Green Community Garden right next door) and usually involves a membership structure for individual plots, the farm will be owned and operated by TCAH, which will sell the produce directly to customers at inexpensive prices, which Samuels said can remain low because of the nonprofit’s reliance on philanthropy. The group plans to hire locally, and to train neighborhood teens on agricultural practices as part of a 10-month workforce program. Beyond its status as a working farm, Samuels also wants Eastern Parkway Farm to be a space for local students to learn about environmental science. The farm will be open every day from 9 to 2, and experienced farmers will assist patrons in harvesting. For 30 years, the land now occupied by the farm was vacant; just months ago, it was a patch of tall grass surrounded by a chain-link fence. Samuels said that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development approached her this year and asked if she wanted to use the vacant lot to “make a difference.” After four months of work by volunteers and staff, the land has seen a “transformation,” she said. The space now features rows upon rows of fresh produce — with current offerings including various cabbages, kale, Swiss chard, radishes, turnips, pumpkins, watermelons and various other crops. There is also a sculpture of two massive hands, by the artist Jasmine Murrell and Eastern Parkway Farm worker Faith Pegus, which Pegus described as “ancestral hands holding up the future generations,” and that also supports the growth of crops, currently chia seeds. Samuels said that the farm was opened using only money from private donations, and solicited the lawmakers present at the opening for public funds to help support the group’s missions. “We cannot do this without your voice,” Samuels said. “We cannot do this without your signatures, we cannot do this without your advocacy.” TCAH has secured $9.6 million in funds from the City Council to purchase property in East New York for a food hub, Samuels told Brooklyn Paper, where the group will grow food using “aquaponics and hydroponics” to allow it to operate year round, as well as distribute bulk food throughout the community. Down the road, she hopes to develop three acres at Floyd Bennett Field, where teens at the Launch EL Charter School, which is seeking to develop a “sustainable and antiracist school” on 85 acres at the former airfield, would run a farm. Despite all that, as with any nonprofit, TCAH needs the dough to do its work, and Samuels hopes that it can scale up its work to feed the whole city. Legislators told Samuels that they intend to get her the money. “She is doing so much with so little,” said Richardson, holding Samuels’ hand. “It is a shame. It is a shame. I am sick and tired, and it is our role, and we will continue to play that role, to cut the red tape for you. You deserve much more. And it is coming to you.”

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ABC must have confidence in this show, as it has now got the network's prime time slot-- right after GREY'S ANATOMY, which is still its #1 show.

I enjoyed it... binged it all in 24 hours, as I was trying to avoid working and having to deal with something that was bothering me.

Joan Collins slams Kardashians: ‘There’s an awful lot of surgery there’ She’s a Dame who doesn’t give a damn! Dame Joan Collins is 88 and still has a lot to say. The “Dynasty” legend’s new memoir, “My Unapologetic Diaries,” is full of juicy secrets and truly uncensored thoughts — and a whole lot of Alexis Carrington-worthy cattiness. The British star slammed her “Dynasty” co-star Linda Evans and her plastic surgery and then proceeded to trash folks who go under the knife — namely the Kardashian family, according to the Daily Mail. “Are you supposed to ignore somebody when they come in with tape on their eyelid?” she wrote of Evans, who starred in the ABC soap opera as her character’s nemesis. “Every one of the other actors was saying, ‘What do you think she had done?’ “ “Am I the only one who thinks there’s an obesity crisis? Those lips people have done, I think they look ludicrous,” she said of today’s trends in cosmetic surgery. “I’m sorry. And if people want to go round looking like that I’m going to laugh at it.” Collins then went on to slam the reality television dynasty. “We all talk about it. Have you ever been in a hairdresser’s? The Kardashians, for instance.” “Kris Jenner, their mother, is a good friend of mine and I don’t want to be rude about her children, but there’s an awful lot of surgery there and I’ve talked to my friends about it, as I’m sure you have, the bottoms, the tiny waists,” she said. Collins even took a swing at Italian actress Sophia Loren and her pearly whites, writing that Loren’s teeth “look like they have been carved out of ivory.” “[Loren’s] still alive. But it’s not as if we’re bosom buddies and she’s never going to speak to me again. And it’s true,” Collins continued.

DEAR ABBY: I recently attended my first rodeo, and during the singing of the national anthem, I realized I was getting the "stink eye" from a pair of teenaged boys. I hadn't removed my straw sunhat because I was taught that a woman's hat is considered part of her outfit and need not be taken off on such occasions. I'm the wife and daughter of veterans, and this is their understanding as well. Have the rules changed? -- "HATTY" IN THE MIDWEST DEAR "HATTY": According to EmilyPost.com, fashionable hats can be left on when the national anthem is played and when the flag of the United States is paraded by. However, if the person is wearing a baseball-style cap, members of both genders should respectfully remove it. Did you ever consider that maybe your deodorant wasn't working and you stank worse than the animals?

Bizarre piece of trivia about S2E3-- There was a shot of Stabler sitting in his car surveilling Austin's Ale House (Which I ate at once years ago)-- Kitty Genovese lived in an apartment above it (it had another name then) and was murdered right outside it: https://www.companyofmen.org/topic/73406-poll-are-ny-values-good-for-the-country/?tab=comments#comment-749372

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New tracking technology could make it possible to solve the nearly eight-year-old mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight 370, or at least locate its debris field, according to reports out of the UK. The Boeing 777 was lost to radar contact in March 2014, about 90 minutes after departing Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. All 239 people aboard are presumed dead. Its disappearance somewhere in the Indian Ocean touched off an international search effort. Yet years later only trace debris believed from the aircraft have been recovered. A system called Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSRP), which tracks signals between aircraft and ground assets, was in its infancy at the time. The new technology makes it possible to harvest more accurate data from the system, perhaps allowing searchers to pin down the location of the plane when it lost contact with air control, The Times of London reported. “Imagine crossing a prairie with invisible trip wires crossing the whole area and going back and forth across the length and breadth,” British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey, who has been part of a team searching for the aircraft for several years, told The Times. “Each step you make you tread on particular trip wires and we can locate you at the intersection of the disturbed trip wires. We can track your path as you move across the prairie.” Ocean Infinity, a marine robotics company, conducted the last search for the aircraft in 2018. The new findings could spark another effort. “We are always interested in resuming the search whether as a result of new information or new technology,” a spokesman for Orion Infinity said, adding that the time frame to renew the endeavor would be late 2022 or early 2023.

Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods bring plant-based chicken nuggets to packed market Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods found success with realistic plant-based burgers. Now, they’re hoping to replicate that in the fast-growing but crowded market for plant-based chicken nuggets. Beyond Meat said Monday that its new tenders, made from fava beans, will go on sale in US groceries in October. Walmart, Jewel-Osco and Harris Teeter will be among the first to offer them. Impossible Foods began selling its soy-based nuggets this month at Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons and other groceries. They’ll be in 10,000 stores by later this year. The rival startups, both based in California, helped redefine what plant-based burgers could be. Beyond burgers were the first to be sold in grocery aisles next to conventional meat in 2016; Impossible burgers joined them a few years later. But this time, Beyond and Impossible will be stacked in freezers already bursting with plant-based chicken options. More than 50 brands of plant-based nuggets, tenders and cutlets are already on sale in US stores, according to the Good Food Institute, which tracks plant-based brands. Some, like Morningstar Farms and Quorn, have been making plant-based meat for decades. But Beyond and Impossible have also spawned a host of imitators making realistic products marketed to omnivores, not just vegans and vegetarians. Fifteen percent of those 50 brands were new to the US market in 2020, like Nuggs, from New York startup Simulate, and California’s Daring Foods. They’re all trying to grab a slice of the plant-based market, which is still dwarfed by the conventional meat market but growing fast. US sales of frozen, plant-based chicken tenders and nuggets jumped 29 percent, to $112 million, in the 52 weeks ending Aug. 28, according to Nielsen IQ. Sales of conventional frozen tenders and nuggets rose 17% to $1.1 billion in the same period. Globally, retail sales of meat substitutes are expected to grow 2% to 4.6 million metric tons between 2021 and 2022, according to the market research firm Euromonitor. Processed animal meat sales are expected to stay flat in the same period, at 18.9 million metric tons. Tom Rees, an industry manager with Euromonitor, said plant-based meat sales were already growing before the coronavirus hit. In Euromonitor surveys, nearly a quarter of consumers worldwide say they are limiting meat intake for health reasons. But the pandemic gave plant-based meat a boost as consumers looked for new things to cook at home. Rees said meat shortages and coronavirus outbreaks at meat production facilities also made consumers think twice about the animal meat market. Meat or no meat, breaded nuggets aren’t exactly a health food. One serving of Beyond’s chicken tenders have 12 grams of fat, 450 milligrams of sodium, 11 grams of protein and 210 calories. Impossible’s nuggets have 10 grams of fat, 320 milligrams of sodium, 10 grams of protein and 200 calories. By comparison, a similar size serving of Pilgrim’s chicken nuggets contains 14 grams of fat, 10 grams of protein, 460 milligrams of sodium and 220 calories. Impossible Foods Vice President of Product Innovation Celeste Holz-Schietinger said it was important to start with plant-based burgers because beef production is a bigger contributor to climate change. But Impossible spent the past year developing the plant-based tenders as part of a goal is to replace all animal agriculture with more sustainable alternatives by 2035. Beyond Meat has been experimenting with chicken for even longer. The El Segundo, California-based company launched chicken strips in 2012. But it pulled them from the market in 2019, citing the need to devote more manufacturing capacity to its burgers. Unlike the new fava bean-based tenders, Beyond’s burgers are made with pea protein. Beyond President and CEO Ethan Brown said the company has spent more than a decade researching various protein sources and their attributes and doesn’t want to limit itself to just one. Dariush Ajami, Beyond’s chief innovation officer, said mimicking the fibrous texture and fat distribution in chicken was the biggest challenge with the new tenders. The company is still far from perfecting a plant-based chicken breast or a marbled steak, but has 200 scientists and engineers working on it, he said. “The goal is to reduce that gap between our product and animal meat,” he said. There’s also a price gap. Beyond Meat’s suggested retail price for an 8-ounce package is $4.99, while Impossible’s 13.5-ounce package costs $7.99. Tyson Foods sells a 2-pound bag of chicken nuggets at Walmart for $5.76. But it’s clear many people are eager to try plant-based foods. In July, Panda Express quickly sold out of Beyond Meat orange chicken in a trial run at locations in Los Angeles and New York. Panda Express says it’s exploring a wider rollout of the product, which was specially developed for the brand. Jasmine Alkire recently tried Beyond Meat orange chicken at a Panda Express in Los Angeles. Alkire became a vegetarian seven years ago, but the Beyond chicken tasted similar to the orange chicken she grew up eating. “It was flavorful and didn’t have a weird aftertaste or off-putting texture,” she said. For now, Beyond Meat has several advantages. It has partnerships with big brands like McDonald’s and KFC and has already opened its first manufacturing plant in China, where Impossible’s products aren’t yet sold. Impossible is still waiting for regulatory approval to sell its burgers in Europe and China because they contain genetically modified ingredients. But Impossible’s chicken doesn’t contain those same ingredients. Both companies plan to sell their chicken overseas. Impossible is confident that consumers will gravitate to its nuggets. In company taste tests, it found that most consumers preferred its product to actual chicken. “It’s better for you, its better for the environment and it tastes better than the animal,” said Impossible Foods President Dennis Woodside. “So we think that’s a pretty strong value proposition.” Other brands insist they’ll defend their turf. Morningstar Farms, the current plant-based poultry sales leader in the US, launched a separate brand called Incogmeato in 2019 with products that closely replicate meat. Sara Young, the general manager of plant-based proteins at Kellogg Co., which owns Morningstar, said the brand has the biggest product portfolio and the highest repeat-buyer rate in the plant-based category. “We’ve been at this for a long time,” she said.

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I'm putting together my next grocery delivery order, and for 87 cents, I had to order this, even though I'm sure it's just a box of artificially-colored sugar: