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...peels away the seemingly infinite layers surrounding the legendary boxer, revealing an alarmingly human specimen coiled in its center. As in his fictional films, Toback is slow to reveal the psychological interior of his controversial protagonist. “This sort of ‘let’s root for this guy’ in movies as if it were a baseball game has always struck me as a kind of truly low-brow notion of what art is supposed to be,” Toback says. “What happens with the most interesting works...
...Rogen, in military short hair and a bulky frame that he's since slimmed down, adroitly navigates the course Hill has set for him: a high-strung bully until he's bullied (by the Liotta character) and becomes a figure of sympathy, someone we root for. About a half-hour into the movie, as you're settling in to the impression that Ronnie is rotten, Hill pulls out the disease card. Not to sound like Michael Savage, but these days every bad attitude is rationalized by being given its own disease. Ronnie, you see, is not a violent jerk...
Take me out to the ballgame, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don't care if I ever get back, 'cause it's root, root, root for the home team, if they don't win it's a shame. For it's one , two, three strikes you're out, at the old ballgame...
...needed distraction. What's even sweeter: Michigan State University, located just 90 miles west of Detroit in East Lansing, made the national semifinals this year, giving the locals more reason to cheer (unless, of course, they bleed the University of Michigan's maize and blue and wouldn't dare root for an archrival). For a few days at least, the city can lose itself in the rah-rah world of college hoops. (Read TIME's special report: "Is This Detroit's Last Winter...
...jaguars and other big cats, which need a lot of room to roam, far more than could be fenced off. "The big cats' territory is crossing over to the human landscape," says Alan Rabinowitz, a renowned conservationist and the president of the new wildlife group Panthera. "At its root, we have to get people to be able to live with the big cats...