She used to think the practice of staying seated for movie credits was a phenomenon of L.A. being a company town. For her, she just likes a few minutes of darkness to ruminate on the film. Or, as with "Atonement," to collect all the little pieces strewn over a two-hour trail of tears and outrage.
 
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One of the Kenyan runners abruptly stopped — and started walking directly toward us All I could see initially was the number "3" on his bib – the third seed in the entire field of more than 20,000 runners. After some back and forth, I figured out he was trying to tell me that his ankle was injured. He had run on it for 13 miles, but had decided he would injure it further if he continued. So Barry and I spent the next 45 minutes watching the marathon in the company of a world-class marathoner. How good is Joseph Kahugu? The world record in the marathon is 2:04. No one in the Los Angeles Marathon has ever run faster than 2:09. Joseph Kahugu's personal record in the marathon is 2:07. It's quite possible he'll make the Kenyan team for the Beijing Olympics this summer.
 
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