Lucky Day For Collector Of 7s

Krich, an actor, is known to have an interest in -- if not an obsession with -- the number seven. Why, he asks, if a television character goes into an office or hotel room, will the number on the door include a seven? He denies he's obsessed, terming his search for the number as "more a curiosity why the number seven keeps popping up," right from the days of the week to the years of bad luck with a broken mirror to the itchiest year of marriage to even Snow White's dwarfs. "It's intriguing how many times the number seven features in daily life," continues Krich, underscoring this by flipping through the 195-page binder he has compiled with 873 contemporary references to number seven. A recent entry is the Times Colonist travel story last month headed "Seven wonders of the world for $7,000." Krich bubbles like a can of warm 7Up when prodded for more examples of sevens, rhyming off everything from the number of spikes on the Statue of Liberty's crown to spots on a ladybug's back. Pop culture is rife with sevens, such as Paul Evans's 1959 hit, Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat, Brad Pitt's Se7en and the Seinfeld episode where Elaine's boyfriend hadn't vomited in seven years. The soon-to-be-seven Harry Potter books are sprinkled with sevens, and there's Agent 007 of James Bond fame. Presumably, says Krich, there is an Agent 001, but "you don't hear about him." http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=34039135-9c44-4e10-b36b-d60c4419beb1

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