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...costume of a judge. That sort of grotesquerie is not to everyone's taste. But there has been no one like that boy before or since, and adults who hope to understand children ought to be on reading terms with their strange, stunted laureate. --By Stefan Kanfer...
...Burt Reynolds who fades into Tom Selleck. Louise Brooks, who seems to have spent her retirement reading, offers the sole consolation. "Proust wrote: 'The only paradise is paradise lost.' Isn't that beautiful?" she asks Kobal. Wisely, he keeps as silent as one of her old films. --By Stefan Kanfer...
...today?" The old outfielder guessed, "Oh, maybe .340." Then why do you say Cobb was so great when he could only hit .340 with this lively ball? O'Doul thought about it. "Well, you have to take into consideration that the man is now 74 years old." --By Stefan Kanfer...
...America that to be black did not mean to be a clown or a lout"). But it was another boxer who put the man in true perspective. Muhammad Ali remarked after the funeral, "Howard Hughes dies, with all his billions, not a tear. Joe Louis, everybody cried." --By Stefan Kanfer...
Ball's many fans, however, will enjoy how vividly Kanfer captures Ball in her prime--brave, pioneering and, above all, ravenous for applause. It has become a cliche for tributes to Ball to gush about how much we love Lucy. What is just as important, Ball of Fire shows, is how much she loved us. --By James Poniewozik