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I’m a Red Sox fan of three-plus decades.
The context feels necessary before I admit that Sean Mullin’s documentary It Ain’t Over, focusing on Yankee great Lawrence “Yogi” Berra, actually made me a little bit teary by the end of its 98-minute running time.
Does the doc, premiering to what will presumably be an affectionate hometown audience at the Tribeca Film Festival, have flaws of structure and focus? Heavens yes.
But does it play convincingly, even to a specifically Yankees-hostile critic? Indeed, it does.
Mullin’s central thesis is that Yogi Berra has gone from one of the most adored and acclaimed athletes of his generation to a figure whose actual on-field prowess has maybe been lost to time — usurped in part by the pilfering animated bear who shares much of his name, his baseball achievements obscured by his famous...
I’m a Red Sox fan of three-plus decades.
The context feels necessary before I admit that Sean Mullin’s documentary It Ain’t Over, focusing on Yankee great Lawrence “Yogi” Berra, actually made me a little bit teary by the end of its 98-minute running time.
Does the doc, premiering to what will presumably be an affectionate hometown audience at the Tribeca Film Festival, have flaws of structure and focus? Heavens yes.
But does it play convincingly, even to a specifically Yankees-hostile critic? Indeed, it does.
Mullin’s central thesis is that Yogi Berra has gone from one of the most adored and acclaimed athletes of his generation to a figure whose actual on-field prowess has maybe been lost to time — usurped in part by the pilfering animated bear who shares much of his name, his baseball achievements obscured by his famous...
- 6/13/2022
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NFL fans will soon get a look inside the regular season of one of football’s oldest franchises.
HBO Max has given the green light to another installment of “Hard Knocks In Season,” this time focused on the Arizona Cardinals. The documentary will follow the team’s upcoming season in the fall.
Viewers can expect weekly coverage as the Cardinals navigate the NFL season and battle to return to the post-season.
“Hard Knocks in Season” debuted last year when it followed the Indianapolis Colts’ 2021 regular season.
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“Last season ‘Hard Knocks’ made an unprecedented leap, documenting an NFL regular season in real time for the first time ever with the Indianapolis Colts,” Keith Cossrow, NFL Films Vice President and Senior Coordinating Producer, said in a statement. “It was a vivid and illuminating look at the life of an NFL team.
HBO Max has given the green light to another installment of “Hard Knocks In Season,” this time focused on the Arizona Cardinals. The documentary will follow the team’s upcoming season in the fall.
Viewers can expect weekly coverage as the Cardinals navigate the NFL season and battle to return to the post-season.
“Hard Knocks in Season” debuted last year when it followed the Indianapolis Colts’ 2021 regular season.
Also Read:
Here’s What’s New on HBO and HBO Max in May 2022
“Last season ‘Hard Knocks’ made an unprecedented leap, documenting an NFL regular season in real time for the first time ever with the Indianapolis Colts,” Keith Cossrow, NFL Films Vice President and Senior Coordinating Producer, said in a statement. “It was a vivid and illuminating look at the life of an NFL team.
- 5/23/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
Film Academy member and sound mixing studio architect Jeffrey Cooper has been found guilty of three counts of child molestation, the Los Angeles Times reports. While Cooper was indicted on eight counts of sexual abuse, judge Alan Schneider declared a mistrial on the remaining five, after a grand jury was unable to reach a verdict.
Cooper’s criminal trial began May 9 in Los Angeles Superior Court in Van Nuys, following his arrest by LA Special Victims Unit detectives in June 2018. The 70-year-old pleaded not guilty to all eight charges, which allegedly involved him committing lewd acts with two underage girls, with the first offense dating from 2006 and 2007 and the second between 2012 and 2016.
He will await sentencing June 1, where he faces up to 12 years in prison.
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Schenider, stating that Cooper was a flight risk, ordered him in jail without bail.
Cooper’s criminal trial began May 9 in Los Angeles Superior Court in Van Nuys, following his arrest by LA Special Victims Unit detectives in June 2018. The 70-year-old pleaded not guilty to all eight charges, which allegedly involved him committing lewd acts with two underage girls, with the first offense dating from 2006 and 2007 and the second between 2012 and 2016.
He will await sentencing June 1, where he faces up to 12 years in prison.
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Film Academy Plays Waiting Game as Member Goes on Trial for Child Molestation Charges
Schenider, stating that Cooper was a flight risk, ordered him in jail without bail.
- 5/21/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
Roger Angell, whose vivid essays about baseball in The New Yorker saw him enshrined in a special writers wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., has died. He was 101 and died of heart failure, according to New Yorker editor David Remnick.
“No one lives forever, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that Roger had a good shot at it,” Remnick wrote Friday. “Like the rest of us, he suffered pain and loss and doubt, but he usually kept the blues at bay, always looking forward; he kept writing, reading, memorizing new poems, forming new relationships.”
Angell was the son of founding New Yorker fiction editor Katharine White and stepson of longtime staff writer E.B. White. He was first published in the magazine in his 20s, during World War II, and was still contributing in his 90s.
His career was celebrated by the Bbwaa Career Excellence...
“No one lives forever, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that Roger had a good shot at it,” Remnick wrote Friday. “Like the rest of us, he suffered pain and loss and doubt, but he usually kept the blues at bay, always looking forward; he kept writing, reading, memorizing new poems, forming new relationships.”
Angell was the son of founding New Yorker fiction editor Katharine White and stepson of longtime staff writer E.B. White. He was first published in the magazine in his 20s, during World War II, and was still contributing in his 90s.
His career was celebrated by the Bbwaa Career Excellence...
- 5/21/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Hollywood may be known for its storytellers, but the greatest of them never wrote a script, cast an actor or called “action!” to put his tales on the big or small screen. That’s because Vin Scully only needed a microphone to tell his stories. In a sport, baseball, that produced many of sport’s best chroniclers – Roger Angell in the New Yorker, Doris Kearns Goodwin in memoir, Ken Burns in documentaries, Harry Caray in the broadcast booth, W.P. Kinsella and Philip Roth in novels – Scully, who will retire at the end of the season after an astounding 67 years as.
- 9/19/2016
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
New York: Capital of the 20th Century by Kenneth Goldsmith “Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion.” Goldsmith is a conceptual poet who does uncreative writing — massive blocks of found text placed in massive quotes — and his new book is billed as his version of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, with New York standing in for Paris in a collage of other people’s words. I can’t decide whether kicking it off with the opening lines of Manhattan is either a crowd pleaser, or all too familiar. Like his recent recitation of the autopsy of Michael Brown — though for different reasons — leading with Woody Allen won’t win him any new fans on Twitter.This Old Man: All in Pieces by Roger Angell “Dogs start the day with a spoonful of Alpo or some other canned meat on top of a heap...
- 11/12/2015
- by Christian Lorentzen
- Vulture
Tracy Morgan returned to Saturday Night Live this past weekend for the first time since his debilitating car accident, and it was a glorious thing to behold. Even beyond seeing the former SNL star do comedy again — surrounded at one point, poignantly, by his old 30 Rock castmates — the episode as a whole was a reminder that life is short, and maybe it's better to spend whatever TV time we have left watching people we already know we like. And that includes you, Larry David, who kicked off the show with...
- 10/19/2015
- Rollingstone.com
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