内容摘要：ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióof a concert film of the same name. In 1994, Houston took the stage for three concerts in South Africa including in Durban at Kings Park Stadium, Johannesburg and Cape Town. Over 200,000 people attended. The album is also Houston’s first ever live concert album (but not her first ever live album, give credit where credit is due — to 2014’s “Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances” and “VH1 Divas 1999.”) She’s never sounded better.

ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióof a concert film of the same name. In 1994, Houston took the stage for three concerts in South Africa including in Durban at Kings Park Stadium, Johannesburg and Cape Town. Over 200,000 people attended. The album is also Houston’s first ever live concert album (but not her first ever live album, give credit where credit is due — to 2014’s “Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances” and “VH1 Divas 1999.”) She’s never sounded better.

ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióHe finally earned his PGA Tour card through qualifying school in 1970, and while he never won on tour, he kept a full schedule of at least 22 tournaments for the next 16 years. His best result was in the 1972 Walt Disney World Open Invitational, when he trailed Jack Nicklaus by two shots going into the final round. Nicklaus shot 64 and won by nine.ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióDent won the Michelob-Chattanooga Gold Cup Classic in 1983, a Tournament Players Series event for players who were not fully exempt — the tour had gone to the all-exempt tour that year instead of the majority of the field going through Monday qualifying.

ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióDent never met any of the qualifying criteria to play in the Masters, but he made the cut in eight of the 11 majors he played — six at the PGA Championship, five at the U.S. Open.ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióHe was best known for his prodigious length, and Dent won the inaugural World Long Drive Championship in 1974.ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióAfter turning 50, he won 12 times on the PGA Tour Champions. Al Geiberger said after Dent shot 64 to win his first Champions event, “Jim Dent ought to be outlawed (for) the way he can hit the ball.”

ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendició“A lot of people will remember Jim Dent for how far he hit the ball, and he really did,” said Miller Brady, president of the PGA Tour Champions. “Yet his long-term success, especially on our tour, proved Jim was more than just long off the tee.”ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióThe fourth of six children, Dent lost both parents by the time he was 12 and was raised by his aunt, Mary Benton. She was opposed to him caddying at The Patch and told him, “If you learn how to caddie, you’re going to learn how to gamble.”

ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendició“Kids think they’re the smartest people in the world,” Dent said in the USGA story. “Second thing I learned how to do when I learned how to caddie was shoot dice and play cards. She was dead right.”

ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióHe worked at Augusta Country Club, and Dent recalled how caddies could play if they were willing to cut crabgrass out of the greens. Among the players he caddied for at Augusta National for the Masters were Bob Goalby and Bob Rosburg.ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióThis is an often breezy and funny movie for what, on paper, is a difficult and dark story. But the comic tone of “My Dead Friend Zoe” is, itself, a spirited rejection to not just the heaviness of many films about veterans but of the grief that can consume those who have dealt with loss and post-traumatic stress disorder.

ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióThroughout the film, Zoe appears only to Merit, ala Brad Pitt in “Fight Club,” singing alongside her as she drives or impatiently waiting for Merit to come home from a run. Whether this, following some unspecified end to Zoe, is a healthy thing or not for Merit is increasingly in doubt. Merit needs to cling to her friend, or her memory of her. But Zoe also rolls her eyes at any suggestion of talking through her feelings. Zoe, as an apparition, is both the cause and relief to her pain.ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióThere are a few other points of view, courtesy of two of our finest actors. Freeman plays the counselor of Merit’s mandatory group sessions. He refuses to let Zoe coast. To pressure her to share and participate, he threatens withholding Zoe’s certification.

ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióMeanwhile, Merit’s grandfather, Dale (Harris), a Vietnam vet, has just been diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s. Merit is tasked with keeping an eye on him at his rural lakeside cabin and helping him into a retirement community — a prospect that infuriates him. As Merit’s original inspiration for joining the army, Dale — stubborn and tight-lipped — epitomizes an earlier generation of soldier.ólicoenunauniversidadsecularpuedeserundesafíootroslovencomounabendicióIn toggling between the present and wartime flashbacks, “My Dead Friend Zoe” is sometimes a bumpy ride. The interplay between Merit and Zoe also shifts, beginning more like a buddy comedy and veering toward horror-film haunting, especially when Merit hesitantly agrees to a date with a worker at the prospective retirement home (Utkarsh Ambudkar).