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Despite the heroic efforts of Dartmouth ace Bob Bennett (2-3), the staff sports a dreadful 6.01 ERA. Bennett is the Big Green's only hope to salvage a game...
Ruby meets its primary aim--to humanize the man behind the historical figure of Jack Ruby--remarkably well. As a Jewish hustler trying to move up in the Sicilian hierarchy, Ruby is the quintessential outsider, and Danny Aiello movingly portrays him as an heroic figure seeking truth, justice and the American way. Sherilyn Fenn, as Candy Cane, also boosts the movie's emotional impact...
...work briefly for IBM. In 1962 he struck out on his own, launching Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems with $1,000 in savings. He sold it to General Motors 22 years later for $2.5 billion. Along the way, Perot has displayed a willingness to use his wealth for heroic purposes -- and a thirst for publicity. In 1969 he tried to deliver two planeloads of medicine, clothing and food to U.S. POWs in North Vietnam. Hanoi rebuffed him. A decade later, he organized a private commando operation that rescued two EDS employees from a prison in Iran. The adventure was memorialized...
...look back on their benighted communist past with a bitter nostalgia. A young Russian engineer, now unemployed, says he felt "nothing but shame" when, on TV, he saw his country's awkwardly named "Unified Team" compete in hockey during the Winter Olympics. A taxi driver, passing Moscow's heroic monument to the Soviet space program, comments matter-of-factly that it was built "when we still had pride in ourselves...
...ever. ABC's American Detective provides a somewhat slicker (punched up with narration and dramatic music) glimpse of real cops in action. CBS's Top Cops and ABC's FBI: The Untold Stories use re-creations to celebrate the exploits of law enforcers, while CBS's Rescue 911 recounts heroic deeds by police, paramedics and other emergency personnel...