Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this conspiring occurs at a time when baseball was Chicago's only religion. When kids would worship the hitting of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (D.B. Sweeney) or the sparkling fielding of Buck Weaver (John Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Charlie Sheen). What Sayles tries to create in Eight Men Out is a struggle between the innocence of baseball and the outside forces that try to smear baseball's image. Such a struggle leads to tragic consequences...
...full claim to our attention are the great but aging pitcher Eddie Cicotte (David Strathairn); Third Baseman Weaver (John Cusack), an appealing victim; and Kid Gleason, their manager (John Mahoney), who is suspicious of his charges yet sympathetic to them. The rest of the club, including Charlie Sheen as Hap Felsch, is reduced to bit-player status in its own drama...
...Whatever hopes a gaffer might have that the likes of Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Lou Diamond Phillips (an actor who curiously combines sweetness and menace and may have the brightest future of them all) could reinvigorate the moribund western form are quickly blotted out by the cloud of ineptitude raised by Young Guns. Profit, yes. The fool thing took in more than $19 million in its first two weeks of release...
...Ferrie, a real person, now dead, familiar to conspiracy buffs. "Something we don't know about. There's more to it. There's always more to it." A CIA operative ponders, "We lead more interesting lives than we think. We are characters in plots, without the compression and numinous sheen." Even Oswald waxes philosophical: "He thought the only end to isolation was to reach the point where he was no longer separated from the true struggles that went on around him. The name we give this point is history...
...Dukakis took a deeply calculated risk, an atypical gamble. Bentsen is not a shoo-in to win Texas, George Bush's adopted state. He could hurt the ticket by being perceived as an affront to the blacks and progressives who backed Jesse Jackson and by sullying the PAC-free sheen of the squeaky-clean Dukakis. And though he is greatly respected in the corridors of the Capitol, Bentsen does not top the list when people daydream about the ideal President of the United States...