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Saudi League soccer and Fox Sports: A match made in apathyThere are several analogies that could be used to illustrate the hubris of Fox Sports partnering with the Saudi Pro League, and as easy as it would be to use the retirement tours of big name soccer stars, and the marginal effect they’ve had on MLS here in the states, Lionel Messi is on a barnstormin...

With Zidane news, US Soccer wags the dog — but that’s okayWe joked a couple days ago that US Soccer had become France without the success, delving into behind-the-scenes drama and parental strife. Little did we know how much like France they reportedly wanted to become. Reports started leaking out over the weekend that Zinedine Zidane had turned down an ap...

If You Never Liked <i>Once Upon A Time In America</i>, Give The Director's Cut A ChanceMichael Sragow’s review of the director’s cut of Once Upon a Time in America appeared in the March 5, 1985 edition of The Boston Phoenix and appears here with the author’s permission. ...

Has An American President Ever Watched Porn In The Oval Office?

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Robert De Niro Redeems The Dopey Fantasy That Is <i>The Intern</i>

At a time when some romantic comedies are flexing an edgier, more smart-ass tone—They Came Together, Sleeping With Other People, even Trainwreck—perhaps it’s a refreshing palate-cleanser that Nancy Meyers movies continue to operate in their own storybook world. You know what to expect from the write...

Geezer Minstrelsy. <em>Last Vegas</em>, Reviewed.

Hollywood movies get a lot of things wrong: Midwesterners, marriage, transforming robots. But Last Vegas reminds us that they're also terrible at depicting old age. It's not that studios don't make movies starring older actors—Escape Plan just came out—but when they do, they often paint a picture of...

Photographs From the Set of Raging Bull

Time's Lightbox has a photo gallery of Brian Hamill's pictures from Raging Bull. ...

And You Can't Beat That with a Baseball Bat

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