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Today, I am reminded of Ken Burns' baseball documentary. He interviews former Negro-leaguer Buck O'Neil, who remembers how he once heard this special crack of the bat as a youngster. He looked over at the batter, and it was Babe Ruth...
When I started out as a young babe, my tabula was completely rasa. Of greed, envy and pride I knew little; of assault, battery and sodomy, still less...
...lead weights; the fellow who makes movies everyone wants to see is not like everyone else. "People like Steven don't come along every day," says his friend and frequent collaborator George Lucas, "and when they do, it's an amazing thing. It's like talking about Einstein or Babe Ruth or Tiger Woods. He's not in a group of filmmakers his age; he's far, far away...
...babe? Time to clean house! This seems to be the thinking of ANNE HECHE, who, with the ink still smudgeable on her contract to play the love interest of Harrison Ford in 6 Days/7 Nights, fired Endeavor, the agency that got her that job, as well as roles in movies (Volcano and Donnie Brasco) that made her this week's actress to moon over. Reason? Endeavor was opposed to her announcing in PEOPLE that she is gay and having a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, who only recently stepped out of the armoire herself. Heche has signed with more like-minded...
...Hustle," Rose was an fan favorite who often adorned the covers of sports magazines and Wheaties boxes. Unfortunately, like many Hall of Famers, he was only a role model when he stood between the foul lines of a baseball field. The aforementioned Cobb was allegedly a miserable human being. Babe Ruth was purported to be an irresponsible drunk. Mickey Mantle was an admitted alcoholic. It is time for the Hall to stop pretending that it canonizes saints. It should elect Pete Rose to its ranks...