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Ken Burns is a romantic about baseball, so it is hardly surprising that the current major league strike causes him dismay. "The thing I feel most passionately about is that these guys are custodians of something a lot more important than their own bottom line," he says. "The history of...
It is also a bit much. In its grandiloquent excess, Baseball reflects the sport's increasingly hallowed status in American life. Somewhere along the road from Cap Anson to Rickey Henderson, baseball ceased being merely a game; it became a poem. Grubby, declasse sports like football and basketball might draw...
She TV does media parodies too, and good ones. Nick Bakay has nailed the sensitive-macho posturing of NYPD Blue's David Caruso, and the show has lampooned everything from Forrest Gump to a dippy model turned TV host named Bagitta. But She TV's horizons are broader. That became...
In the Echo Park section of Los Angeles, it's hard for a man to survive. And it's almost harder for a woman to survive when her man is gunned down, sent to jail or on the lam from his responsibilities. From this sorority of the damned, writer-director...
DA: Yes, Ax's solo parts made me think he was playing cadenzas for some Romantic concerti; when the rest of the continuo (which they might rightly be called) come back in, you're left wondering where the rest of the orchestra went. In the fervid parts of the Schumann...