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...best embodies: bare-knuckle capitalism combined with the stench of corruption. (King lured IBF and WBC heavyweight titlist Hasim Rahman by reportedly giving him $500,000 in $100 bills, a check for $4.5 million and guaranteed access to King's extensive guanxi network.) The title bouts feature Rahman fighting journeyman Brian Nielson, as well as EVANDER HOLYFIELD taking on John Ruiz. "Chinese are like flowers growing up in the fields that bring beauty to the world," King told a bewildered press. Then, with uncharacteristic prosy, King billed the event "Melee in China." (Newspaper editors did him better, choosing RAGING...
...Lewis began as a journeyman director (sample titles: "Blazing Six Shooters," "Bombs Over Burma"). He let the nondescript nature of his assignments serve as a springboard for experimentation, framing shots in the most unconventional ways - and thus "Wagon Wheel Joe" was born. Lewis told Peter Bogdanovich in an interview that appears in the book "Who the Devil Made It," I thought to myself 'How can I distract the audience from this... I put a wagon wheel in front of the camera; you looked at it - it was an artistic shot - and before you could analyze the scene, it was over...
Minutes later, the journeyman was hooking sand trout, ribbonfish, speckled trout, you name it. He seemed to be a few fish from writing his own article for Saltwater Sportsman. His stringer got more and more crowded. I, however, could not shake the goose...
...They also serve who must stand and wait for stardom. Mitchell was a Broadway journeyman before his galvanic performance as Coalhouse Walker in Ragtime. Yet even that role didn't win him quite the renown he deserved (he lost the Tony to Cabaret's Alan Cumming). Now he's starring in the first Broadway revival of Cole Porter's sparkling 1948 musical based on The Taming of the Shrew. He gets to reintroduce such Porter hits as So in Love, is teamed once again with his Ragtime co-star Marin Mazzie--and doesn't get killed in the end. Sounds...
...unaccustomed to actual team spirit that manager Joe Torre, after the Yankees won their championship on Wednesday night, awkwardly called them "a great team team." They were. Every single player contributed, big time. While most good teams have three solid starting pitchers and a rotating journeyman, the Yankees had six great starters: David Wells, David Cone, Andy Pettitte, Orlando Hernandez, Hideki Irabu and Ramiro Mendoza. Their bench could have beaten other teams. The Yankees, in contrast to the attention-grabbing McGwire-Sosa home run race, got wins and bad Nielsen ratings by playing "small ball": by massaging the first...