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When the Houston Astros and the New York Yankees take the field for Game One of the American League Championship Series tonight, Johnnie B. Baker Jr. — affectionately known as “Dusty” because, as a child, he loved to play in the alluvial dirt of Riverside, California — will be there. As the Astros’ manager places that first, fresh toothpick in his mouth and sets foot on the lightly moisturized dirt of Minute Maid Park, we’ll all have the great honor of watching the man who many say co-invented the high five continue his long,...

• Chris Pine will star in Mantivities, a comedy he co-wrote with pals (and fellow actors) Will Greenberg (Modern Family), Robert Baker (Grey’s Anatomy), Ian Gotler (The Lxd), Anthony Liebetrau, and Drew Howerton, about an ex-child star spurred into taking hold of his life by a bunch of his buddies. Michael Patrick Jann (Drop Dead Gorgeous) will direct. [Screen Daily]

• Amy Adams is in talks to star in Dark Places, an adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-seller about a woman who is confronted by a group of amateur crime investigators about the murder of her family when she was seven years old.