Word: guileless
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While both teams would like to win, everything is kept in quite a practical perspective. Said Lowell House player Dave Tropp. "With a game that has guileless and wickets, you can't take it too seriously...
...such simple materials and a plot line that stretches toward the horizon as direct and uncomplicated as an old county trunk blacktop, Clint Eastwood has fashioned a marvelously unfashionable movie, as quietly insinuating as one of Red's honky-tonk melodies. It is a guileless tribute not only to plain values of plain people in Depression America, but also to the sweet spirit of country-and-western music before it got all duded up for the urban cowboys. As both actor and director, Eastwood has never been more laconic than he is in this film. If it reminds...
...Maybe I made a mistake in my career years ago," says Prey, 53, reflectively. "I should probably have switched to more dramatic roles earlier." Outstanding as the guileless Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute, the rakish Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus and the clever Figaro in both Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Prey has unwillingly become typecast as an operatic nice guy. It is understandable. Who can see him as a villain...
...other hand, the film's guileless manner becomes a kind of tribute to the underrehearsed lunacies of the comedy era it nostalgically celebrates. The humor of Your Show of Shows was based on what funny people thought was funny about the world they lived in. Because matters like demographics did not enter anyone's calculations, authentically crazy, therefore authentically human things occasionally burst through the box to startle us out of our living-room stupors; O'Toole's uninhibited inventiveness suits that atmosphere perfectly. One has to scramble back beyond the '50s to find...
...flew to Milwaukee last week to help Henderson celebrate, notes that the psychology of theft has not changed a bit since his own day: "What separates the great base stealer from the rest is arrogance. You have to eliminate all fear and declare war on the entire league." The guileless Henderson cites a less bellicose reason. Says he: "I've loved to steal bases since I was a little kid. That's what makes baseball thrilling...