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When the fly ball San Francisco Giants centerfielder Kenny Lofton sent arcing into the outfield landed in Darin Erstad’s glove Sunday night and the Anaheim Angels won the World Series for the first time in their 42-year history, the applause in Edison Field was thunderous. Disney, Anaheim’s owner, couldn’t have written a better Cinderella story: despite baseball Commissioner Bud Selig’s naysaying, despite the lack of big names on their roster and despite their relatively untried pitching staff, the Angels triumphed in seven games...
Rafael (Ricardo Darin) runs a prosperous, but crisis-ridden restaurant, his ex-wife is a shrew, his daughter and his girlfriend are variously estranged, and now his aged father wants to remarry his mother in the church wedding he refused her 44 years ago. Trouble is, Mom (the great Norma Aleandro) has Alzheimer's, and the church is dubious about the ceremony. Heart attack and midlife crisis are, naturally, Rafael's lot. Ours is pure pleasure as he works his way toward a more contented state in this wry, richly layered, wonderfully observed Argentine film...
...rock ?n roll star before Darin had declared his itch to be a nightclub headliner. Bobby said that, and a bit too much more: he expressed the thought that, by 25, he?d eclipse Sinatra. Darin wasn?t quite saying he was bigger than Jesus, but the boast betrayed a young man?s arrogance. Then he released a Sinatra-style swinger, the Brecht-Weill "Mack the Knife," which had enjoyed four Top 10 interpretations in the previous four years, including Louis Armstrong?s. Well, damned if Darin?s "Mackie" wasn?t the year?s top single, selling more than...
...Thereafter, Darin hopped from big-band treatments (a jaunty version of Charles Trenet?s "Beyond the Sea") to rock revivals of standards ("You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby," "Lazy River," "Irresistible You") to original pop stuff ("I?ll Be There," "Multiplication"). A 1973 concert, available on video as "Bobby Darin: Mack Is Back," shows that Darin finally got his wish: if not to be Sinatra, then at least to do him. There he is in his tux, tie eventually unraveled in the Sinatra style, singing some of his old hits and a few of other people?s. Ladies...
...great period of Atlantic concluded in the mid-?60s, after Charles and Darin and Leiber and Stoller left the label. I acknowledge that later ?60s Atlantic music can get to me: I still do choke up at the church-organ screaming solemnity of "When a Man Loves a Woman." I have a sneaking fondness for early BeeGees, and not only sneaking: that first album has a half-dozen Beatles-worthy tunes on it, and "To Love Somebody" has stood the test of time as a magnificent Australo-American R&B wailer. But the late ?60s can?t compete...