Word: andersons
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...only way to beat him," added Catcher Johnny Bench, "is to hit it over his head." Bench should know. In the final game, the Reds' cleanup hitter powered a line smash toward left field only to see Robinson make yet another spectacular diving catch. Reds Manager Sparky Anderson summed up the Series in three little words: "Robinson beat...
That is precisely the reaction provoked by / Never Sang tot My Father, Author Robert Anderson's self-indulgent adaptation of his self-indulgent Broadway play. Director Gilbert Gates moves Anderson's characters with soap-opera mawkishness through father-son conflicts that are no less tiresome for their undeniable reality. Tom Garrison (Melvyn Douglas) is a Westchester County octogenarian Babbitt who fulminates against "some damned savage who will walk off with the luggage" at Kennedy Airport and complains to a fellow Rotarian about "some bozo who has been crowding into our pew at church." As a child he worshiped...
Nothing could have saved Anderson's platitudinous script, but Douglas makes an admirable try. He manages to transform a wholly unsympathetic curmudgeon into an object of reluctant but genuine sympathy. Without his seasoned wizardry, Father would be nothing more than matinee melodrama presented by your favorite bio-nondegradable detergent...
...race was only one of several outstanding performances by Spengler this season. The victory was his fourth straight, and he set a course record for the second consecutive time. His time of 26:07 was 38 seconds under the mark set last year by Roy Shaw. Anderson finished 16 seconds after Spengler...
...middle of 1966, several old San Francisco friends had got together a promising rock band called Big Brother and the Holding Company. Since the Jefferson Airplane had Signe Anderson (later replaced by Grace Slick), the boys sent for Janis to be their lead singer. She began to learn about rock 'n' roll, and to please her, they began to learn about the blues. By the time of the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, after months of hard practicing in Haight-Ashbury, they were ready. The documentary film Monterey Pop is the celluloid affidavit of their triumph...