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Re: Art, craft, and the tragic nature of baseball

Tom Watson — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:48:44 -0000

Yeah, I want to see Love Reign O'er Me - for one, it's a great song. Strangely, the Who were central to my own 9/11 experience. Because of some of our volunteer work, I got a couple of tickets to the Concert for New York - both Adam Sandler and The Who performed. Sandler was funny - his opera singer character - but the Who were transformative. Tears ran freely down my face as I jumped around my seat like a wailing banshee, cuffing wasted firefighers on the shoulders and telling them I loved them. A very weird, sad, loud time. I felt like rock was literally saving all those cops and firefighters that night.

Re: Art, craft, and the tragic nature of baseball

Dan Leo — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:51:28 -0000

Speaking of Miller, Williams, O'Neill... well, let's just keep it to O'Neill: I recently had the mad idea to rent the early-60s TV version of "The Iceman Cometh" with Jason Robards, the adolescent Bob Redford, etc., directed by Sidney Lumet, and, y'know, speaking as a fairly literate guy and someone who has directed and acted for the stage in his own small way: that play really sucks.

Re: Art, craft, and the tragic nature of baseball

Viscount LaCarte — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:04:43 -0000

Alan Arkin rocks in that movie.

Re: Art, craft, and the tragic nature of baseball

Lance Mannion — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:11:21 -0000

Viscount,

Watched it the other night. It got to me. Alan Arkin's parts especially. I'll be writing about it as soon as I get it a little more sorted out in my head.

finest,

I'm glad to hear Reign Over Me's that good. I like Don Cheadle but I've been put off by what I've seen of Adam Sandler in the trailers.

Re: Art, craft, and the tragic nature of baseball

fairest — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:01:43 -0000

thanks for reminding me i need to rent game 6. i was 9 and sitting on my grandmothers couch and crying, right before, you know, the red soxs lost.

but id ditch the netflixs for a night & go to a multiplex to watch "reign over me", its the most honest new york movie ive seen in awhile. it has an awesome white castle reference, too. which is all a new york movie needs.

Re: Art, craft, and the tragic nature of baseball

Viscount LaCarte — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:12:27 -0000

13 Conversations...

I think you're gonna like that one. I did.

- Al