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Every Olympics, of course, finds many of its highlights in the corners, where no one thinks to look for them. The upper-case Games were about Wayne Gretzky's checking into the Olympic Village like an Everyman; the lower-case ones were about lesser-known athletes' rubbing shoulders with the Great One. The marquee performer in the men's downhill, when finally it was completed, Hermann Maier, stormed out of the starting gate and, at the first major jump, turned into a cartwheeling, somersaulting blur of red and orange as he crashed through two retaining fences and ended...
...Everybody Loves Raymond In its second season, this CBS sitcom is coming into its own. The star, Ray Romano, is an amusing, hangdog Everyman, and his relatives are funny oddballs rather than the more typical tiresome ones. Family shows have been done over and over, but Raymond can surprise...
This wouldn't be a problem if Mad City weren't such a character-driven piece. Echoing Billy Wilder's 1952 Ace In The Hole, the film aligns two distinct personalities--the hardened reporter and the simple, down-on-his-luck everyman--and pits them both against the senseless juggernaut of popular culture. "This movie is about people," Gavras says, and the people who star in it are indeed its finest assets. Dustin Hoffman plays Max Brackett, a hotshot national news reporter who has been demoted to a backwater affiliate station in northern California after a mysterious incident involving celebrity...
...pick back up after you've put it down for a while. Larry Weller is an interesting thinker, for an ordinary guy, and his internal thoughts and comments are thoughts and comments are thought-provoking and fascinating. His worries and insecurities seem familiar. Larry's a sort of Everyman, only better...
...HANKS The George Bailey of the '90s. America's latest Everyman...