Word: two
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maintaining such an attitude lies with coach Restic, Scheper feels. "I love him," Scheper says, repeating a phrase that filters into his speech regularly. "He's much looser, more comfortable now than he's been in the last two years...
...social outcast yet the character is never clarified. Tavernier dredges up the usual socio-economic sludge but he leaves it unexplained; was Bouvier raped by monks, did the rabid dog truly bite him, was he mistreated in the hospital, was he even crazy before he shot Louise and put two bullets in his own head? These questions do not provoke thoughtful analysis into the very nature and definition of madness but rather confuse and eventually annoy the audience. If Bouvier was a lovable fool, dispensing wisdom in nonsense, perhaps one could accept this non-clarification as an indictment...
However, one part of the film succeeds brilliantly, mostly through the superb performance of Phillipe Noiret as Rousseau, Bouvier's presiding judge. Despite some heavy handed parallels between the two men such as their shared penchant for sodomy and red heads, Noiret lifts his character out of the prevailing "the straights are just as crazy" mold and gives life to this balding judge who still lives at home with his exquisite, adored Maman. Noiret captures the fierce ambition of Rousseau; he yearns for that Legion of Honor medal with all the intensity of a good schoolboy who wants to please...
...John Lowenstein three-run homer with two out in the tenth inning gave the Baltimore Orioles a 6-3 win over the California Angels in the first game of the American League Championship Series last night...
...Orioles led, 3-2, until the sixth inning. The Angels tied the score when Rod Carew singled and Bobby Grich doubled him home. The two teams stayed even until the tenth, when Doug DeCinces singled off of California's John Montague. Rich Dauer sacrificed DeCinces to second, but Terry Crowley flew to center for the second...