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Hanks plays an alcoholic former major leaguer who is given a last chance for redemption as the Peaches skipper. As a traditional male placed in a distinctly untraditional role, he is given a lot of bluster and vulgarity to play. Too much of it. It forces him away from the reality he's also trying gamely to find. The same could be said of the whole picture. Energetic, full of goodwill and good feelings, it never quite attains the graceful nonchalance and self-confidence with which finely tuned athletes -- and comedies -- move and enchant...
EVER SINCE THE LOADED SUPERTANKER UNDER HIS command foundered on Bligh Reef in April 1989 and unleashed an 11 million-gal. spill of Alaskan crude oil into Prince William Sound, Skipper Joseph Hazelwood has been a marked man. Last week, when the Maritime College of the State University of New York announced that it had hired Hazelwood to help teach cadets how to stand watch, environmental groups were quick to remonstrate. "This is truly amazing," said the Sierra Club...
Some saltwater romantics complain that all the emphasis on technology has diminished the role of good old-fashioned seamanship. To which America 3's skipper Koch replies, "Sailing skill is fine, but you can't do something with a boat that won't do it." In the world of America's Cup racing, it seems, you get what...
...thus increasing the chances of the hapless hurler eventually lobbing a fat one his way. There's good story about Billy Martin's verbal jousting with a New York Post reporter, as well as an uproarious account of ace hurler Jim Bunning's excellent adventure as a minor league skipper...
More is what he gets, thanks to the sudden disappearance of Matty Hylan, a flamboyant millionaire who owns a conglomeration of companies, including the one that employs Browne. The runaway entrepreneur leaves behind a crumbling financial empire and the commitment he had made to skipper a new Altan Marine model in an around-the-world sailing race called the Eglantine Solo. Hylan's beleaguered lieutenants scramble for a replacement and find him in one of their own employees, Owen Browne...