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...famous as Jake was for being able to take it in the ring, he was even more notorious for dishing it out at home. Half brutal patriarch, half petulant child, he played the suspicious sadist to his wife Vickie, his brother Joey, his best friend Pete Petrella. Pete stood up to Jake's insults, and stood by as his hard-luck friend; later, under the name Peter Savage, he helped Jake write his autobiography and served as consulting producer to the Raging Bull company. In the film, Pete's history is subsumed into the character of Joey...
...sees her gliding in slow motion through his jerky life, smiling mysteriously, bestowing a Queen Mother nod on some old friend. But what old friend? Why did she smile at him? Can it be she's fooling around with one of them Mafia bums? Or even with Joey? She can be. She must be. His Desdemona must be punished, like a pretty but punch-less fighter who needs a tough lesson taught. And so must Joey...
...went over to the Republican Herald Tribune. His column, "Today and Tomorrow," made him a celebrity; at its peak, it was carried by more than 200 papers and was considered required reading up and down the corridors of power. "Zip!" sang a stripper in the Broadway musical Pal Joey, "Walter Lippmann wasn't brilliant today." A series of TV interviews in the '60s exposed him to millions more who had never read...
Honeysuckle Rose takes its cue from the plangent homilies of country music. Buck Bonham (Nelson) is a moderately successful singer with a strong, loving wife (Dyan Cannon), an adoring son (Joey Floyd) and-shift to a minor key here-an ambitious girl guitarist (Amy Irving) who snakes her way into Buck's band and bed. Once she and Buck become lovers, the dramatic tension slackens. Seven decades of movie romance have prepared the audience for a climactic reconciliation of Buck and his wife. And since Amy Irving acts as if she bought her clothes and her accent at Bloomingdale...
Consider the pitching staff: Dave Stieb, 4-1, 2.23 ERA pending last night's contest with those pesky Mariners of Seattle, is a prime candidate for the Cy Young. Joey McLaughlin might grab the fireman of the year laurels...