Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Larry Dierker back with Astros as special assistant
(blog.chron.com)
Somebody dig up McLean Stevenson…it’s been renewed!
Read More...Larry Dierker, who has been a part of Major League Baseball in Houston as a player, manager and broadcaster for almost a half-century, will rejoin the team as a special assistant to new Astros president of business operations Reid Ryan, the team announced today.
“I’ll be doing some writing and will be a right-hand man for Reid, mostly in the area of public relations,” Dierker said. “I get the feeling that I will gravitate to the area ...
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1. Steve Treder posted on December 01, 2012 at 10:20 PM # hit 0 | hit 0At least he had a wonderful life.
I said "most all", not all, and I'd add Rear Window, Northside 777, and Anatomy of a Murder to that list, and Rope has its moments. But The Shop Around The Corner? Pure schlock that's weighted down even more by a bunch of Europeans who for some strange reason are speaking heavily accented English in a movie set in Budapest. Too many impossible things before breakfast for my taste in that one.
P.S. #4 should get one of those Primey things
These are James Stewart's top-tier performances: Mr. Smith; Destry Rides Again; The Shop Around the Corner; It's A Wonderful Life; Harvey; The Naked Spur; The Far Country; Carbine Williams; Rear Window; The Man Who Knew Too Much; Vertigo (a masterpiece of a performance); Anatomy of a Murder; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, and Fool's Parade.
These are his second-tier, but still excellent performances:
Next Time We Love; Born to Dance; After the Thin Man (supporting role, concluding scene bursts the little genre smarmism); Seventh Heaven; The Shopworn Angel; Vivacious Lady; The Shopworn Angel; You Can't Take It With You (his hot love scene at the beginning and the funniest setpiece in the movie); The Mortal Storm (underrated Nazi warning movie); The Philadelphia Story (he's easily the best thing in that pretentious mess); Call Northside 777; Rope (underrated Hitchcock); Winchester '73; Broken Arrow (a 1950 movie that is as fresh and current on race dilemma as any movie ever made); No Highway in the Sky (watch the first 20 minutes, if nothing else, for all the tutorial you need in movie acting); Bend of the River; The Mountain Road (the only WWII movie he made--basically an anti-war movie); Two Rode Together; The Flightof the Phoenix; Firecreek.
I won't go into the third level, still very good acting, but you should get the idea. No one has James Stewart's resume of accomplishments, when it comes to depth, breadth, and height. He's the man. Grant comes close, but he doesn't have Stewart's range (of emotion and characters) and versatility.
Eddie Fisher
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Evan Longoria
Yes, I saw it back when it first premiered on TV, and maybe once again on a rerun either that season or a few years later, but not in at least 45 years. I remember I thought it was quite good. As an actor/director combo they don't come any more sensitive than Stewart/Ford. I wasn't aware of much of the resonating allusions back then, since I was a little kid and information was sparse, although I knew that it referenced Joe Jackson. As the comments point out, other legendary figures are referred to, too.
Hey, neat. Thanks for pointing that out. I had tried to find it a good while back and was unsuccessful, and never thought to check again.
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