Word: weaverization
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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...
...story. And then there were the poignant sidebars: the little boy crying "Say it ain't so, Joe," as Shoeless Joe Jackson, greatest of the team's several great players, emerged from the grand-jury room one day; the sports-page paragraph that almost annually recounted Buck Weaver's latest pathetic attempt to clear his name (he was not part of the conspiracy but knew about it, failed to report it and was punished with the rest...
...sportswriters like Ring Lardner (played by Sayles himself) to Supergambler Arnold Rothstein, are present and superficially accounted for. They take screen time away from the team, where the only ones who lay 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...
...European director, Costa-Gavras, came to America looking for terrorism, and found it. Well, maybe he and Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas invented it, at least in this fulsome form. Betrayed is the story of Cathy Weaver (Winger), an FBI agent sent into the farm belt to investigate an armed conspiracy of the crackpot right. She falls in with, and then in love with, Gary (Tom Berenger), the man of her darkest dreams. For such a paranoid gent, he is pretty quick to accept Cathy. Before you can say "George Lincoln Rockwell," he has invited her to a "coon hunt" -- ten white...
This "New Power Soul" sound can often be a bit taxing on the ears. A multiplicity of sounds--Cat and Boni Boyer's vocals, Eric Leeds and Atlanta Bliss' brass, Levi Seacer Jr's. bass, Miko Weaver and Prince's guitars, and Matt Fink's keyboards--all clamor for the listener's attention...