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...began with Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game this summer, leading to Super Sunday, which will be followed by one of the 2008 NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament’s regionals Final Four matchups...
First the western went east--to Japan, where Akira Kurosawa transformed it into The Seven Samurai (1954)--then it came home, in this 1960 version of the Kurosawa classic. For a time, it upended the genre's concentration on noble or twisted loners; this was the first all-star western romp. It's in no way a terrific film; director John Sturges was a pedestrian showman. But to watch McQueen, Coburn, Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson and Eli Wallach fight for screen time is to see a fabulous showdown of egos--like Meet the Fockers, with six-guns instead...
...quaint Austrian city where Mozart was born, which hopes to cash in on the anniversary with an incongruous mix of kitsch and high culture. "Salzburg without Mozart is hardly imaginable. Without Mozart, I really couldn't say how this city would be," says Heinz Schaden, Salzburg's mayor. An all-star lineup of musicians will be performing in town this year, including conductors Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Riccardo Muti and Simon Rattle. And for the first time, the annual Salzburg Festival in July and August will be staging every single one of Mozart's 22 operas. Festival organizers expect a huge...
DIED. VIC POWER, 78, flamboyant All-Star first baseman who in the late 1950s became one of Major League Baseball's first Hispanic stars as he started racking up seven Gold Gloves in 12 seasons spent with the Philadelphia A's, Cleveland Indians and other teams; in Bayamon, Puerto Rico...
...Salem, Massachusetts, native was a four-year starter at Salem High School. Groszyk was a three-time conference all-star and was conference player of the year his senior year...