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...States, but that's not why MGM produced this film: they're making a buck off their past. And it's not a bad past. True, the very best moments of American dance are already in That's Entertainment, but the films between 1935 and 1955 are an almost endless gold mine; That's Dancing is still a rich yield...
...best players hold abiding interest for everyone. There is endless dispute over which pitcher threw the hardest; Lefty Grove, Walter Johnson. Bob Feller, and Joe Wood are the leading candidates. Babe Ruth stories abound. The Bambino had "a heart as big as a watermelon, and made of pure gold." He also had a rather large appetite: "He'd stop along the road when we were traveling and order a half dozen hot dogs and as many bottles of soda pop, stuff them in one after the other, give a few big belches, and then roar,'ok boys...
...what had become an American inferiority complex. Away from descendant history. Running away from the past, into the future. Or away from the bad past anyway, the recent, misbegotten past, and into a better past, all mythy and sweetly vigorous, into that America where the future was full of endless possibility. Into an America where, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "The only sin is limitation...
Beforehand, it was uncool to care: the world's quadrennial white elephant was lumbering toward Tinseltown, and so what? And besides, the Russians weren't coming; the Russians weren't coming. But by the time the great Rafer Johnson made it up the Coliseum's endless stairs, cynicism was lifting like those white balloons with the funny red and blue tails. The Games were going to be grand after all. For two glorious weeks, Americans sat transfixed in front of their TV sets, thrilling to heroes they had never heard of a month earlier. The images that flickered across...
...writers whose distinctive voices fill the pages of Ruas' book with shoptalk and gossip have learned to work against this unpromising backdrop. From Eudora Welty, 75, to Scott Spencer, the 39-year-old author of Endless Love, these eloquent veterans also know how to plug along through praise, criticism and indifference. Some careers grow slowly, like redwoods. Each Welty story added a ring to her reputation until today she is treated with the reverence accorded endangered species. Joseph Heller works hard just to keep the standing won nearly 25 years ago with Catch-22. William Burroughs, whose satiric fantasies...