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How Hollywood Ruined Our Best Football Novel
Originally published in 1977 in the Chicago Daily News. Reprinted here with the author's permission....
It's Good To Be The King
From “The Age of Movies,” here’s P. Kael on History of the World, Part I:...
It's What You Do With The Gift That Counts
There was a good story by John Le Carre in theNew Yorker earlier this year (subscription required) about the making of his novel The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. The piece centered on the tense relationship between the film’s director, Martin Ritt, a left-wing Jew who’d been blacklisted, and its s...
Lost in Translation
Dig this blog post by Lawrence Block about the difficulty of adapting books for the big screen:...
How A Great Boxing Novel Got The Movie It Deserved
"Sometimes you only get to win one championship."—Leonard Gardner...
Great Expectations
Head on over to the New Yorker and check out this post by Richard Brody on a new book of interviews with Orson Welles:...
The Art of Storytelling
There’s a fine post on John Huston over at Cinephilia and Beyond, which has quickly become one of my favorite all-time sites. They give us a 1965 interview with Huston inFilm Quarterly. Dig this:...
I Spent All Day Trying To Figure Out If These Are Lou Gehrig's Balls
Reader Mike wrote in to ask, "Did Sports Illustrated publish a picture of Lou Gehrig with his balls visible?" because those are the kind of questions we get. Your answer, Mike: I don't know. But it's not for a lack of research....
The Last American Hero
And since we're talking classics, how 'bout Tom Wolfe's 1965 Esquire story on Junior Johnson? ...
Personal Best
From Pauline Kael's 1982 review of one of the great sports movies:...
Body and Soul
Speaking of Palookaville, here's one of the most famous scenes in movie history. Just so happens that it involves boxing. By the way, Rod Steiger, who was an incorrigible ham, is incredible in this scene. Understated. His performance in the whole movie is beautiful. ...
Sympathy For the Devil
Here's a treat—Joe Flaherty's 1981 Inside Sports piece on Jake LaMotta:...
No Game Today
In 1928, Buster Keaton signed a contract with MGM, a move he later called "the worst mistake of my life." His first movie for the studio was also the last good one he ever made. "The Cameraman" is memorable for a few scenes, notably this one at Yankee Stadium. And just so you know, Buster was such a...
This Chris Bosh Film Is Better Than All Of The Drugs
This is...I don't know what this is. It's Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse. ...
How'd They Make That <em>Jurassic Park</em> Dinosaur Noise? A Handy Chart
Welcome to Dataspin, a weekly data visualization of whatever the fuck....