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Contented layabout. Ex-@OCRegister. Pictured with Col. Sanders at the Hanshin (Japan) Tigers ballpark.
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Sick Red Sox rookie Payton Tolle was ‘a lazy bum in bed all day’ before dominating Yankees

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By Christopher Smith
| Yahoo Sports Verified
BOSTON — Red Sox rookie starter Payton Tolle woke up Friday with a fever and body aches. “I laid in bed for a long time this morning,” Tolle said. “And then got here, got some DayQuil in me.” Despite feeling sick, Tolle dominated the Yankees with his longest career scoreless outing. He led the Red Sox to a 6-1 victory at Fenway Park. “I think that’s why I hit the wall so hard in the seventh — just not sleeping great and being a lazy bum in bed all day," Tolle said.
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Review: ‘Anastasia’ in La Mirada is boisterous fun, but ultimately underwhelms

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By Christopher Smith
| Pasadena Star-News Verified
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... La Mirada Theatre has presented a stellar bang of a 2025-26 season, but with “Anastasia” things go out with a letdown, if not a whimper. The production generates periodic boisterous fun along the way through brisk staging, galvanizing projections and splashy costuming, plus a few entertaining performances rippling out of the cast in bigger and smaller roles. But an unconvincing “why do we care?” convoluted storyline ultimately takes its toll.
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Review: ‘Sound of Music’ delivers all your favorite things in Costa Mesa

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By Christopher Smith
| The Orange County Register Verified
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Happy to announce that “The Sound of Music,” at Segerstrom Center for the next 10 days, remains a satisfyingly spry 66 years old, its enduring, endearing appeal largely in place in this touring production. Through astonishingly engaging earworm melodies, smart, sincere and heartfelt lyrics and a universal theme of a damaged family made whole by a naive outsider helping them persevere, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s final musical fails to age or fade.
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