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Represented in the conference were a variety of labor leaders, from traditional unions like the AFL-CIO to groups like health care workers and the Screen Actors Guild...
...cocky as hell, he's arrogant, he's sometimes petulant, but he's got all the good lines and uses them well. A scenery-chewing performance could have done fine, but Plummer develops Wallace into something other than a flat parody; he makes a dynamic, human journey in minimal screen time and turns in an uncharacteristically strong supporting performance...
...Mike Wallace, who has not yet seen the film, is especially touchy about his portrayal on-screen. He is afraid of being distorted, of having his reputation damaged by Mann's film or of being made out as the "bad guy" of the story. If Wallace is worried about looking bad in the film, he has little to worry about; although his character does waver, for understandable reasons, he ultimately decides to support Bergman and put the interview on. In the film, Wallace is an intriguing, human, and very sympathetic character; he is not without flaws, but despite this...
...After the first round, the retrieving system spits out the Professor's heavy black ball. It rolls along the metal shoot until it rests next to FM's neon green, glittery-swirled ball, and the video screen above our heads plays a loud computer graphic of a stick figure getting a strike and celebrating by leaping around in the air. The figure's dance is intermittently interrupted by flashes of a red X. The sequence holds our attention for a few seconds and then fades back into the scoreboard where a smaller red x appears in Professor Putnam's first...
...gaze up at the screen for a moment, contemplating this phenomenon. A baseball fan holds up a sign punning a player's name on one screen, and on the other, is that blinking arrow, now pointing to "FM." A few forgettable moments later, the pins are reset. And while a slightly less enthusiastic computerized stick figure performs in the background, Putnam eases us into his argument about the deficit of social capital...