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At the top the most important credit of all, for "Chief Technician." The man's name is Willis O'Brien, the first great artist of stop-frame animation. For special effects fans, he's Mickey Mantle, Michael Jordan and the Beatles all wrapped up in one bespectacled, balding, paunchy little...
Another figure of Garden lore, the more widely-known Willis Reed, gave the country one of the greatest sports moments in its history when he limped onto the Garden court in Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals. Having torn a muscle in his right leg in Game 5, the...
What is the importance of Reed's triumph here? Simply that the most enduring aspect of that magical May evening wasn't the two shots Willis hit in the opening minutes or the champagne bath he received at the end of the game.
The situation was very intense, with the NBA Championship on the line. Still, I think that Reed's brief practice session would have been exhilarating even if one removed the Lakers, the fans and the tension of a playoff situation. There was a drama inherent to Willis' testing the limits...
Winners DRYOCOCELUS AUSTRALIS The real survivor in the outback. Stick insect thought extinct shows up alive and well off Aussie coast NEAR-SHOEMAKER U.S. spacecraft is first man-made object to land on an asteroid? other than Bruce Willis STEVEN SODERBERGH Sorry Spielberg. Filmmaker faces off against himself for the...