Word: starring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Collins, too, speaks of "hungry" players, and the absence of any one big star who can afford to be "cocky," have an "attitude...
...drive to win. A competitor stubborn enough to play long beyond his prime -- and until he could break Ty Cobb's batting record -- a rookie who ran to first base when he was given a walk, a bruiser who plowed so hard into an opposing catcher during an All-Star game that he separated the man's shoulder, Rose was too vain and too arrogant to beg for mercy from a former Ivy League classics scholar like Giamatti...
...Star athletes whose crassness is tolerated when they are winning -- Rose once made a scene in the Stage Deli in Manhattan because there was no sandwich named after him (there is now) -- are often stunned when the indulgence ends. When a reporter at the press conference asked Rose why he was accepting the most severe punishment possible if he had not bet on baseball, Rose was speechless. He turned to his lawyer, Reuven Katz, shiny with sweat beside him, who could only natter on about the fine print of clause F. Katz had fought for several days for language that...
...John Belushi dead. You have to cherish the daredevil idiocy of a movie whose climax is a parody of Woodward's legendary deathbed chat with CIA director William Casey. The journalist visits the hotel room where Belushi took his fatal overdose and hallucinates an interview with the dying star. "Breathe for me, Woodward!" the samurai comic cries. And it's hard to hate a docudrama in which Cathy Smith, Belushi's last drug source, materializes in the straight-arrow reporter's fantasy and asks, "How 'bout you, Woody? You want...
...Woodward does want a hit, he is unlikely to get one from this turkey, overstuffed as it is with mad ambitions and bad karma. Wired wants to turn the story of the Saturday Night Live comedian and gonzo movie star into a cautionary fable about celebrity in the fast lane -- and never mind that some powerful people in the movie business were not eager to see the picture made or released. Reprising Belushi's career without being able to use clips or skits from his most famous work should be challenge enough. But nooo! Wired insists on merging the complex...