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His penchants for drinking and smoking were well-known and hardly out of the ordinary for that era; they rarely impeded Candy’s work and, in at least one notable instance, seem to have enhanced it: Both the documentary and the biography recount how Candy indulged in a late-night bender with Jack Nicholson before rising the next morning to shoot a scene in “Splash” where his character fumbles, flails and smokes his way through a round of racquetball.

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But before the work-out started, something out of the ordinary occurred.

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The fire started off very small, Ben said, which he described as being "nothing out of the ordinary for this time of the year", but it quickly escalated.

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Out of the ordinary: In the center of town, the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum and Parks-Janeway Carriage House promises “the largest horse-drawn vehicle collection west of the Mississippi” including a stagecoach, farm wagon and fire engine in addition to examples of “regional saddlery, period apparel, and vintage horse gear.”

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“You notice small things that are out of the ordinary.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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