Word: babe
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...Bill Buckner was a first baseman who let a ball slip through his legs in 1986, giving the New York Mets life and, ultimately, the championship. He's a player in this long psychodrama now, as are Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams ? some great baseball names. But this isn't about them. It's about Scott, my brother-in-law and father of my niece. Scott is not from Massachusetts and until recently wasn't even much of a baseball fan. His wife, Gail, my sister, is fiercely from Massachusetts, as are my brother, my father, my mother...
...Fate. I didn't mean to use that word. I tend not to be fatalistic or superstitious about these things. I don't think the Sox are cursed because they sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920, or that the wobbly 1978 home run in a Sox-Yanks one-game playoff by a guy whose name rhymes with lucky was simply meant to be. To believe such hogwash would be dishonor our fathers. What were they believing in, all those years, if it was impossible? Were they idiots...
...before this adaptation sullies the story with a new, supposedly upbeat epilogue, the animagicians of Jim Henson's Creature Shop use the technology that gave us Babe and countless taco commercials to create a stunning live-action version (TNT, Oct. 3, 8 p.m.). The challenge in bringing Animal Farm to life is not creating verisimilitude--there never will be a realistic talking donkey--but giving cuddly animals noble and historic heft. The film does so with a wisely chosen cast of voices (Ian Holm stands out as smarmy pig propagandist Squealer) and eerie visuals, from the crudely painted ANIMAL FARM...
...McBeal) is no stranger to provocative, zeitgeisty premises, and in theory this slick private-eye series is a Lewinsky-era doozy: privacy-invading, sexy investigations by sexy investigators using high-tech, extra-constitutional means. But he's done little more with it yet than find excuses to get his babe-licious P.I.s into halter tops and hooker outfits, a setup spiced up with Moonlighting-style banter between Gina Gershon and Paula Marshall. Gershon's sneering, sex-as-a-weapon swagger is an asset, but the product so far is predictable, sometimes amusing eye candy...
This isn't kid stuff. McGwire's 70th homer ball last season fetched $3 million. The famous Barry Halper collection, which includes Ty Cobb's dentures and a lock of Babe Ruth's hair, will rake in an estimated $45 million at auction next month. Baseball memorabilia has never been more dear, owing to a tidal wave of enthusiasm for the sport that stems in large part from last year's Sammy and Mark show--airing again this year...