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While one such skirmish can sink a campaign, both supporters and rivals will find much more to debate in the character and record of Lamar Alexander, from his idyllic Appalachian boyhood through a public career driven by a steel-willed, bland-faced ambition...
Tension builds and the film unravels when a boyhood friend of Ace's named Nick Santorro (Pesci) moves to Las Vegas. Nick is an enforcer whose job is to protect Ace. Instead he uses his innate charm and frantic firsts to intimidate just about everyone in Las Vegas. Nick's flamboyant style and brutal methods alienate everyone. When Nick, Ace and Ginger degenerate into a lying, cheating and stealing triangle, the film too gets stuck...
...kept producers from complacently cranking out the kind of wan, homogenized fare that characterized TV seasons past--and can still be enjoyed on Nick at Nite if one is so inclined. (But is there honestly any reason beyond nostalgia, graduate theses in popular culture or a lingering taste for boyhood erotica for anyone to watch the painfully lame Bewitched or I Dream of Jeannie?) The easygoing suburban blandness that Nick at Nite dines out on was owing to the fact that network TV was once the massiest mass medium ever invented. It still is, of course, but thanks...
...Sports Illustrated article upon Mantle's death, the writer postulated that Mantle was an icon precisely because he led the stuff of boyhood dreams for his whole life. He could drink all night and then go out and-play center field and hit a home run for the Yankees...
...Pole, a Greek, a Puerto Rican or, as we said in those days, a Negro. Racial epithets were hurled around and sometimes led to fistfights. But it was not "You're inferior--I'm better.'' The fighting was more like avenging an insult to your team. Among my boyhood friends were Victor Ramirez, Walter Schwartz, Manny Garcia, Melvin Klein. The Kleins were the first family in our building to have a television set. Every Tuesday night we crowded into Mel's living room to watch Milton Berle. On Thursdays we watched Amos 'n' Andy. We thought the show was marvelous...