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...neither his superiors nor his wife nor three children have ever been able to make him look like a businessman-or a lawyer either. Enveloped in a rumpled suit, with a stubby tie barely reaching the slope of his ample belly, Sporkin has the appearance of a Damon Runyon character who just finished an all-night poker game...
Before he died in 1934, at 48, Ring Lardner wore out, but he never wore thin. In recent, self-absorbed decades, he has been more reminisced about than read. The literate young know him fondly (a middle-aged reader supposes) as a hard-drinking character in one of Damon Runyon's baseball stories, or perhaps as the author who invented the hard-drinking baseball player, Damon Runyon...
...television had something on which to base their models. For decades now, however, these characters have only existed as TV cliches. The predictability is not just unfunny, it is infuriating. Big Eddie (Sheldon Leonard) is the semitough owner of a sports arena cut off the loud-checked Damon Runyon cloth. As a nod to more recent fashion, he has been given a hip black man as an assistant. But as the subliterary tradition to which he belongs insists, he is married to a wise-dumb ex-chorine, and they are warmhearted and lovable despite their grammatical struggles...
...Thing. A project like this must be mounted with both reverence for the source material and fearless vulgarity. Such qualities are in evidence here, as Damon Runyon characters used to say, more than somewhat. The movie has to do with a biscuit-eyed lovely named January Wayne (Deborah Raffin) who has a thing about her movie-producer father Mike (Kirk Douglas...
...dole, but he kept on fighting -and losing. After a surprise victory in 1934, he disposed of three strong contenders for the heavyweight crown and earned a shot at Champion Max Baer's title. Braddock skillfully outboxed Baer for 15 rounds, winning a unanimous decision and Damon Runyon's sobriquet "the Cinderella...