Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fein, who has no background in the health sciences, comes to Harvard from the University of Chicago, where he served as director of that university's financial planning and budget departments for three years...
...Chicago, 1919, Eight Men Out retells the true story of baseball's most embarrassing moment, the infamous Black Sox scandal. In the fall of 1919, eight members the Chicago White Sox, considered by many to be one of the best teams ever, conspired with gamblers to throw the World Series to the Cinncinati Reds. Although the eight players were acquitted in a court of law, baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned them from ever playing major league baseball again...
...movie, based on a book by Eliot Asinof, tries to answer one central question: what would drive these eight men to sacrifice the game of baseball for $10,000 dollars apiece? Sayles, who also plays Ring Lardner, a Chicago sportswriter who suspects wrongdoing in the Series, offers an explanantion--the stinginess of White Sox owner Charles Comiskey (Clifton James) While Comiskey courts the Chicago media with champagne-catered press conferences, he gives his players flat champagne and no extra bonuses for winning the pennant...
...this conspiring occurs at a time when baseball was Chicago's only religion. When kids would worship the hitting of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (D.B. Sweeney) or the sparkling fielding of Buck Weaver (John Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Charlie Sheen). What Sayles tries to create in Eight Men Out is a struggle between the innocence of baseball and the outside forces that try to smear baseball's image. Such a struggle leads to tragic consequences...
...Glenn Garelik, Ted Gup, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Richard Hornik, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Edward W. Desmond, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis, Wayne Svoboda Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, Jeanne McDowell, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...