Unser, Andretti, Foyt, Mears, Rutherford – it is a competition that conjures up the greats of motor racing as The Indy 500, one of America’s most iconic events, celebrates its centennial edition tomorrow. [...]
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While featured player Paul Giamatti is convincing as a suburbanite attorney who, in struggling to make ends meet, devises an ethically dodgy plan to take on the legal guardianship of a senile elderly client (Burt Young), the key move that put this film on a winning track, came when writer/director Tom McCarthy (“The Station Agent”, “The Visitor”) decided to audition wrestlers that had acting potential. [...] With Sundance underway and Oscar nominations revealed, time to look at a small movie gem that recently played at the Palm Springs International Film Festival based on the life of one of the all-time great distance runners. [...] Years of planning and wooing in an effort to earn the right to host soccer’s biggest event- the quadrennial World Cup culminated in Zurich today when FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter opened the envelopes to reveal Russia and Qatar as the winners based on a vote of the FIFA Executive Committee. In what has to be considered a bit of an upset, Russia, which has never hosted the World Cup, with the support of powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (in absentia) and plenty of oil money to finance new stadiums, defeated England and combined bids from Spain/Portugal and Netherlands/Belgium to earn the right to be host for 2018. [...] The Journey of the Youth Olympic Flame got under way today in Olympia, Greece, with the lighting of the flame at an official ceremony outside the famed Temple of Hera. [...] From the second highest capital in the world (Quito, Ecuador), the jungle trek starts with a short flight to Coca, a tiny village where oil-drillers can hang their hat at night. Then there is a three hour dusty truck ride (longer if it has rained and it often does) followed by three hours by canoe down the Amazon which is followed by a black tie affair at a private rainforest hot spot where I am the guest of honor or..¨roastee¨ by the local cannibals as a main course in savage stew. hahaha… [...] During a recent interview with me in Shanghai when his team was in town to play the Sharks, Parker talked a lot about movies. The native New Yorker is very passionate about cinema and has grown increasingly so, saying he spends much of his free time in China watching titles from his massive, and still growing, DVD library he has built since going there to play in the CBA. [...] The former Laker guard, now running the point for Guangdong of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), is hoping to carry his Southern Tigers to the league title as they play the Xinjiang Flying Tigers in the championship series beginning today. The force behind Xinjiang’s team is Mongolian center Mengke Bateer, the first Chinese player to start for an NBA team and the first to win an NBA championship (San Antonio Spurs, 2003). [...] Wow! That was a strange feeling, like a dream…except I couldn’t make out the words! I only knew it was mine because the author’s name on the cover was in English. [...] |
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