Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like Viola or Henrietta. The Sun City phone book is a scam artist's bible because it lists hometowns and former occupations of seniors. "Closers" make follow-up calls to likely marks; "reload men" make them to victims who have succumbed to previous scams. "No-sales men" make a pitch to the suspicious...
...documentary "I'm almost not crazy..." John Cassavetes defines filmmaking as "waiting around...for your dynamic turn." That surely applies to his own improvisatory works: Shadows, Faces, Husbands, Minnie and Moskowitz. They are anguished home movies of actors searching for the precise pitch of rage or love. The films mean to grapple with painful truth, but it can seem ages between epiphanies. A Cassavetes movie often plays like two hours in the waiting-waiting-waiting room of the Actors Studio...
...analytical rigor. This Jobs literally lopes into the room, and he keeps using the word golly. So O.K., golly, it's true that the famed "Reality Distortion Field"--that renowned Jobsian ability to bamboozle and bedazzle--still works, but it's a slower seduction these days, not a manic pitch. At 42, he may have mellowed, but as a motivator and marketer he still has no equal...
...cool, shiny, handsomely made and, in its compelling-repelling way, mordantly funny--imagine an atrocity tale told with Noel Coward insouciance. But the most interesting part of the film comes after it's over. That's when the real knives come out. At the Sundance Film Festival, where this pitch-black comedy was an award winner, LaBute was widely rebuked by the sensitivity patrol. After a Manhattan screening, a male publicist was punched. Well, he was a guy. Probably deserved...
...meantime, fans in Tokyo interrupted their morning commute to catch the games on two huge, open-air screens. While the Japanese don't feel as warmly toward Irabu as they do toward Hideo Nomo, whose quest to pitch in the majors was both earlier and purer, they are nonetheless proud. The headline in Asahi Shimbun--NEW YORK DRUNK ON IRABU'S FIRST VICTORY--was confirmed by the New York Post--BANZAI! Still, nobody expressed Irabu's debut better than his catcher. An hour after the game, Girardi sat at his locker and said, "To come to a new country...