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...than the daytime shows that set up losers like piņatas for moralizing hosts to whack. Intervention simply lets addicts and their families--who are trying to get them into rehab--tell their own stories. Its stark, judge-for-yourself approach proves scarier and more edifying than Dr. Phil could ever be. --By James Poniewozik
...Phil Niekro, 46, the New York Yankees' elderly knuckle-ball pitcher, "experience after a while becomes another word for compensating, listening to your body, squeezing the maximum out of what's left. When I started, my age now would have boggled my mind. But these days I think anything's possible." Niekro lacks six victories for 300. The wise Chicago White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver, 40, got there last week. He has lost only the least of his gifts, velocity. Discussing Rose, he says, "Pitchers don't have to run, remember. Not that Pete was ever a very fast runner...
...life painted entirely by the numbers does have a certain sad cast to it. But baseball is founded on statistics, after all, and as Rose puts it wonderfully, "If you have 70-some hits against Phil Niekro, and you have 40-some hits against Joe Niekro, that's over 100 hits against the Niekro family, isn't it? One-fortieth of my hits. Who wouldn't know that? Don't you know how much money you have in the bank?" At the same time, his prized distinction is the fact that he has played in 1,916 winning games. "That...
Watching Walter Lloyd conduct a high-speed car chase or evade pursuers by diving off a bridge into the icy waters of Hamburg harbor is, if you are a gentleman of a certain age, roughly equivalent to watching Phil Niekro win his 300th game. It extends the effective life of one's youthful fantasies a few minutes more. But while stimulating that harmless activity, Target also encourages a modest re-examination of the ideological scaffolding on which the older generation erected some of its dreamwork...
Such detail must seem irrelevant to Director Taylor Hackford; he knows that White Nights will be a hit only if it is seen as an extended music and dance video. With ingenious duplicity, Hackford has worked ten new pop tunes, by Phil Collins and Lionel Richie, among others, into a ballet film set in the U.S.S.R. He has also had the inspiration, radical by the standards of recent musicals, to keep his dancers' feet in the film frame, and to hold a shot long enough to anchor the loping rhythms of Choreographer Twyla Tharp. Hines taps and boogies--and acts...