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...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...
Tosches looks out the window with the neighborhood's secrets in his eyes. He takes a drag. "I can't answer that," he says, perfect pitch. Another character in the most gloriously twisted show in New York...
Irabu's first pitch--a fastball to Brian Hunter on the outside corner for a strike--was cheered loudly by the fans and inwardly by the catcher, Joe Girardi. "I was as nervous as he was," says Girardi. "But after that first pitch, which was right where I wanted it, I knew we'd be O.K." Irabu was perfect the first two innings, striking out four. He ran into trouble in the third, giving up a run, and again in the fifth, when he gave up another run and walked two batters to load the bases. That necessitated a conference...
...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...