1.  Cuba plays Nicaragua, which it beat 8-7 in round-robin action.

2.  Del Toro played Fred Fenster, a con man with cool threads and the most marvelously slurry voice anyone had heard (or misheard) in years.

3.  Derrick Battie played basketball in Italy last season.

4.  Denzel Washington plays a retired quadriplegic forensic detective in New York City who teams up with Angelina Jolie to track down a serial killer.

5.  Denzel Washington plays Jake Shuttlesworth, a basketball-loving, Coney Island man imprisoned on a 15-year sentence for killing his wife.

6.  Cuny played a prominent role in early relief efforts in Somalia, in 1992.

7.  Depp plays a dashing gallant who believes he is the Don Juan, seducer of a thousand women.

8.  Depp plays the straight man to a parade of frontier freaks.

9.  Dellenbach plays other positions on the line, as does his main competition, Mike Gisler.

10.  Demagogic special-interest lobbying and cynical Republican obstructionism designed by Bob Dole in the Senate and Newt Gingrich in the House played a role in the final stall.