Word: amateurness
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...about it, except for the new major motion picture, “In the Land of Women,” starring Meg Ryan and the O.C.’s Adam Brody. Don’t get too optimistic about this young writer, whose meager talent shot him from amateur TV writing to star-studded film writing fame too soon. Kasdan’s screenwriting and directorial debut is nothing to applaud.“In the Land of Women” is largely derivative of every other mother-daughter relationship film you’ve seen. Despite the trailer?...
...champion swimmer Jessica Long, 15, born without bones in her legs, was a double amputee. Following a 2006 season in which she won nine gold medals in world competition, she became the first Paralympian to win the Sullivan Award, given annually since 1930 to the nation's top amateur athlete. The recreational rock climber said, "To represent all the other Paralympic athletes ... is so cool...
...Infante, who looked like a cross between William Holden with a mustache and the young Eli Wallace in Baby Doll, was a man's man: a carpenter by trade and an amateur boxer for pleasure. (A grueling fight, as bloody and intense as anything in Raging Bull, serves as the climax to his 1953 Pepe el Toro.) He was a fanatic about his workout regimen. In a time when Hollywood movies rarely revealed much of their male stars below the collar, Pedro went topless in nearly every film, displaying the bulky muscularity he was so proud of. You could count...
Maybe my favorite thing about the HRG&SP is that they’ve never taken themselves too seriously, preferring instead to embody the best sense of the term “amateur,” which originates from the Latin word for one who loves. The cast and crew of “Utopia, Limited” clearly love what they’ve made...
...they go to the stadium and cheer and make their team play better,” Boyko said. “But if what’s actually happening is that referees are subconsciously being intimidated, that makes it less fair.” Boyko, who is also an amateur-level soccer referee, said that his study shows that “individual referees give more advantage than would be expected by chance.” He added that the effect is more pronounced with some referees than others. “Who you get as a referee tells...