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DIED. CHRIS SCHENKEL, 82, gracious founding father of sports broadcasting best known by younger fans for calling Professional Bowlers Association games for 36 years; in Fort Wayne, Ind. Over a 60-year career, the velvet-voiced baritone covered seminal events in such sports as golf, boxing, football and horse racing. Among his most notable broadcasts: the first televised Masters tournament, in 1956; the matchup known as the greatest game in NFL history, the 1958 league championship between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts; and the perfect 10 scored by gymnast Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal...
...That sense of ease dignifies even his most forgettable roles. There's also something gracious in his reserve - and it's perhaps no accident that his best work has been with feminist directors like Jane Campion, where he has allowed the leading lady to shine. As Judy Davis told Time a few years back, "he's lovely to work with, very easy-tempered, rather an urbane chap." Blokes like him too. "He's a fantastic transformer," says director Woods. "But when he comes out of the moment and you talk to him, what's unusual...
...previous weekend. ?We moved the podium out to here,? Zack told me as we walked into the events room. Our Red Sox, by contrast, lured a mixed crowd of perhaps twenty on a thick night that promised thunderstorms (the author said by way of explanation). Zack made a gracious introduction, I read a few bits, and then we entered into question-and-answer. We mercifully dealt with Foulke in under five minutes, and then moved on to more substantial things: ?How do you get all those tickets?? ?Down where you live, do the Yankees take us as seriously...
Nicole was decked out in a designer dress and glittering in borrowed jewelry, including an imposing watch. Event staffers had helped with her hair and makeup, just one of the examples of the gracious help Corriero said she had encountered...
...wife Nora (and their terrier Asta) were a dream family to a Depression audience in need of blithe fantasy. In six movies from 1934 to '47 (out on DVD next month), William Powell was a kind of F.D.R. of crime fiction and Myrna Loy was the suavest, most gracious wife ever...