Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ghosts of star crossed 1964, when the team contrive to blow the title. This year, as the 15½-game Phillies lead dwindled to a low of three games, the comparisons began. Philadelphia rallied and won, but sound memories lingered. The season ended with bickering as unpredictable Slugger Dick Allen did another walkabout...
...very difficult movie to judge because it takes up a previously forbidden subject-the blacklisting of showfolk suspected of Communist leanings during the early '50s-and has the nerve, and grace, to take an absurdist view of that deplorable era. For that, and for Woody Allen's fine performance (against his usual comic grain) in the title role, it deserves respectful attention...
Witch-Hunters. Allen plays a politically innocent but street-shrewd cashier in a bar and grill, whose old high school friend (Michael Murphy) is a blacklisted TV writer suddenly in need of someone to sign his scripts for him, cash his checks and show up at rehearsals pretending he wrote the thing. The friend is gifted, the network execs are pleased, and Allen (who takes a percentage for his services) soon finds himself prospering and enjoying his demi-celebrity. But, of course, a tweed jacket and a book-lined pad do not an author make. The Front's best...
Before long, Allen is fronting for more than one talented writer. Then come the investigators. The witch-hunters just cannot believe that a scriptwriter this skillful has not committed an investigatable offense. Along the way Allen becomes involved with a comic named Hecky Brown (Zero Mostel), whose career is destroyed by the witch-hunters and who then destroys himself. Allen's consciousness (and his conscience) have been steadily expanding. In the end, he heroically-and funnily -defies the congressional committee that tries to pry from him at least a few suspect names...
...Phillies must be favored to win games One and Four. Jim Lonborg has been there before, but the Reds should jump on Philadelphia's third starter -- Jim Kaat, Tom Underwood or Larry Christenson. For the Reds, lefty fireballer Don Gullett is allegedly in top form; but the Schmidt-Luzinski-Allen power block loves southpaw fastball pitchers. Rookie Pat Zachry (2.74 ERA), Fred Norman and Gary Nolan are all solid. Give the edge to Philadelphia here...