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Photographs From the Set of Raging Bull
Time's Lightbox has a photo gallery of Brian Hamill's pictures from Raging Bull. ...
America's Game
Baseball Card Vandals is killin' it for the start of the NFL season. ...
Down, Set...Hike
Looking through some old papers this weekend I found these two drawings I did when I was a teenager. Copied from Sports Illustrated. Not sure the year but must have been 1984-85. ...
Just Put Your Lips Together And Blow
Our man Eric Nusbaum has a fun piece on the Lucha Libre star wrestler Maximo over at ESPN:...
Bruce Weber's Broken Noses
Before Let's Get Lost, Bruce Weber made Broken Noses. ...
Payback Is A Bitch
Friend of mine in London sent me the following. Taken from Maiden Speech by Eleanor Brown, published by Bloodaxe in 1996:...
The Marx Brothers Play Football
From the Marx Brother's fourth feature, Horse Feathers (1932)....
Ed And Steve Sabol: The NFL Dream Machine
Today gives the start of the NFL season. What better place to start than Rich Cohen's excellent portrait of Ed and Steve Sabol? The league as we know it is hard to imagine without them. Published last October in the Atlantic, here's "They Taught America How to Watch Football":...
Jack Nicholson Is Retiring From Acting (Or He Is?)
Reportedly, that is. Black Book has the details. E! has a response....
I Must Go On. I Can't Go On. I'll Go On.
Our man Mark Jacobson has a beautiful story on Sonny Rollins in the latest issue of Men's Journal. Rollins played with the great musical innovators of the mid-century—Parker, Monk, Dizzy, Miles....
What Becomes A Legend Most?
Ingrid Bergman, photographed above by Gordon Parks in 1949. She was born on this day in 1915 and died on this day in 1982....
Note In A Fan's Notes
Found this copy of Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes in a bookstore on the Upper West Side last week. Dig the inscription:...
And the Winner Is...
"All they do is give out awards. Greatest Fascist Dictator: Adolf Hitler." —Woody Allen....
The Real Rocky
Or The Ballad of Chuck Wepner. In case you aren't familiar with Wepner's story, dig George Kimball on Sly Stallone and “Rocky”:...