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...course there is nothing wrong with making movies--or books or paintings, for that matter--that depend on the irrational rather than the rational; to disparage that would be to blunder into an ageless debate over the merits of faith versus reason--a debate that shows no signs of resolving itself. But there is something unsettling about the way Spielberg and Lucas, in their passion for faith, take pot-shots at reason...
DIED. Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, 75 or perhaps more, ageless, flamboyant fastball pitcher who became a legend during two decades in the old Negro leagues, even before breaking into the majors as a rookie of 42-the first black pitcher in the American League; of a heart attack; in Kansas City, Mo. "Do you throw that hard consistently?" asked his first manager. "No, sir," said Satchel, "I do it all the time." Paige (his nickname came from carrying satchels at a railroad depot as a child) estimated that he pitched 2,500 games in the black leagues, won 2,000, including...
...looked upon acting as a job, and now, frankly, I regret it. I think of all the things I could have done. I just let parts come to me. I never went after them." Still, that seems to be about all she regrets, and if Colbert, radiant and ageless, is not happy, who is? "She's been drinking from the Fountain of Youth, that girl," marveled one elderly gent on opening night. Could be. Reminded that one of her idols, Lynn Fontanne, is now past 90, Colbert beams and says: "I'm going to do that." -By Gerald...
After his first fistfight in a year, the battered hero rubs his knuckles and reflects: "People who become legends in their own time usually have very little time left." True enough, unless they are the cream of contemporary detectives, whose ageless task is to bust the bad guys and leave the whining and complaining to lesser mortals...
While Boorman does not make Excalibur the extravagant tour-de-force it might have been, he does manage a fine depiction of an ageless tale without excessive tribute to the contemporary schlock impulse. If the times demand adventure stories, they should all aspire to the plain intelligence of Excalibur...