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...they called him. Or "Little Ice Water" or "Blazing Ben" or "the Hawk." Ben Hogan had almost as many nicknames as he did victories in golf's major championships, and that was nine. The sobriquets were mainly attempts to inject a little color into a man whose personality matched his no-nonsense golfing attire--white linen cap, beige shirt and sharply pressed slacks...
...legend needed no embellishment. When William Benjamin Hogan died last week at 84, he was rightly revered as the greatest shotmaker who ever lived. "No human has ever come as close to controlling the golf ball as perfectly as he did," said Ben Crenshaw. The son of a Dublin, Texas, blacksmith, Hogan forged his ideal swing through hard work. He would practice until his hands bled, and when other pros gathered around the fire during a rain delay, Hogan would still be hitting shots to his caddie. His fierce will helped him recover from a 1949 auto collision that nearly...
...longer funny. Signifies Saturday Night Live and Bill Cosby. See also: NF--never funny. Signifies Hogan's Heroes, McHale's Navy, Fish...
FORT WORTH, Texas: Ben Hogan, the golfer made of stone, died Friday at 84. Some called him "Bantam Ben," because he stood a slight 5-foot-8. Some called him "The Hawk" for the way he analyzed a course. But the Scots called him "The Wee Ice Mon." Because he was Ben Hogan. Hogan was the game's third-winningest player with 63 tour victories. He won nine major championships, four U.S. Open titles, the career Grand Slam and was the only person to win three Grand Slam events in a single season. But the Hogan Mystique was truly born...
...someone we wish ill. When our sympathies shift to her, the movie sours. It is no help either that Ronald Bass neglected to write (or Mulroney was unable to find) a character in Michael. Why all this fuss over this lox, we keep wondering. Director P.J. Hogan (Muriel's Wedding) stages a couple of marvelously giddy musical numbers, and Rupert Everett is terrific as the voice of sweet homosexual reason in the midst of this heterosexual hubbub. He--and the songs--probably belong in a different, better movie. But they give this one what edge and clarity...