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Kudos for having the guts to print the full, unretouched image of Army Specialist Matthew Braddock, an amputee recovering from injuries he suffered in Iraq. Too much of the truth about this war has been doctored. PHIL SIPOS Richfield, Ohio...
...Cinderella Man The truish story of a down-and-out pug, Russell Crowe's James J. Braddock, who overcame injuries, dire, depression era poverty, and a lackluster record to become, briefly, the World's Heavyweight champion, Ron Howard's movie was the year's most notorious flop. But it was a good, tough, well-acted, beautifully designed and photographed movie, sentimental without being squishy, inspiring without being a tear-jerker and featuring honest, honorable performances by Crowe as well as by Renee Zellweger as Braddock's fierce, brave wife and Paul Giamatti as the wise-guy manager who stands...
...down on the bed, and her svelte leg made an inverted V, framing poor Benjamin Braddock. Against the bleak will of such a woman, the young man was no match--just a light lunch for the spider queen. That seduction scene from The Graduate showed the uses to which ANNE BANCROFT, 73, who died last week of uterine cancer, could apply her fierce intelligence and bold sexuality. As the predatory mother figure Mrs. Robinson, Bancroft (though she was only six years older than her co-star Dustin Hoffman) created a Francis Bacon portrait of brains gone to waste, and lust...
...proof, Giamatti offers up Cinderella Man, a boxing movie opening this week in which Russell Crowe plays James J. Braddock, the Seabiscuit in Everlast trunks who lifted America's spirits during the Great Depression; Giamatti is Braddock's loudmouthed, good-hearted trainer Joe Gould. "Gould was actually his manager, but they fudge it and make me his trainer-manager," Giamatti says. "It kind of puts me where the action is." Giamatti loved wearing 1930s clothes, being around fighters and working with Crowe ("It was about as much fun as I've ever had with another actor"), and director Ron Howard...
...Crowe's Braddock is similarly genuine-a winning blend of simplicity, stubbornness and working-class charm. Renée Zellweger makes do-good times or bad-burying her fears under a soft-spoken feistiness. And Paul Giamatti as Braddock's trainer-manager is a revelation. He's a chipper, wised-up guy who gets Braddock his comeback fight, then guides his rise to the championship bout with Max Baer, played with a menacing charm and sadism by Craig Bierko...