Word: yaz
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Sure, Houk is a player's man--he won't blast them in print or lead by fear or threats--but there's nothing wrong with that. When he retired from baseball, Al Kaline commented that Houk was the best manager he ever played under. And, Yaz said it at the press conference: nobody, not stars or scrubs, ever knocks Houk as a man or a manager...
When Cooper has received exposure in the past, he has often been over-shadowed. Traded away from first-magnitude stars Lynn, Rice and Yaz in Boston, his first-base play in Milwaukee has not received the all-star consideration it has merited because of California's Carew...
...young Director Ace Tyro has toiled for three years to complete his widescreen, R-rated indictment of major league baseball, All That Yaz. Its original running time: 135 minutes. But Tyro decides to cut five minutes for the premiere, and another five minutes after the first week of its release. He adds 20 minutes for the European version. For airplane showings the movie is softened to get a PG rating and cut to two hours flat; the airline projectors can hold only that much film...
...Yaz is sold to a cable system, which airs the 125-minute version, and then to a commercial network, which gives the film a new title (The Umpire Strikes Out). To fit a two-hour prime-time slot, the network cuts it to 97 minutes. Later, another network restores much of the footage, including half an hour of outtakes, minus the locker-room sex scene. Finally, 16mm prints are rented to film societies and revival houses, but in a TV-shaped format and with yet another title: La Cage aux Fouls...
...seems, have been stranded on third for many years now. But no matter where you come from, it's impossible to dislike a team which fields Yaz, Perez, Lynn, Fisk, the incomparable Jim Rice, Rick Burleson, Butch Hobson, Jerry Remy and rifle-armed Dewey Evans, currently mired in a batting slump. And Fenway Park has a life of its own--like the hotel in Stanley Kubrick's latest flick, it "shines." Small enough to afford a good view of the action from any seat in the house. Fenway has a communal quality all too uncommon in these days of prefab...