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That's a really good interview. Loved the comments on Williams at SABR with his Master Sergeant Bob Feller.
Deford gets taken down here, and he deserves it, for the most part, as to the matter in question, but he once was a great writer and commentator, and writers are just like athletes. They, too, have a life cycle. Just because Orson Welles ended his life making commercials for Paul Masson doesn't nullify Citizen Kane or Touch of Evil. A little sympathy might be in order.
2.AndrewJ posted on May 12, 2012 at 07:04 PM #hit 0 | hit 0
Hey, Ted Williams owes much of the public reappraisal of his playing career to those "little nerdy guys" in SABR. And just for the record, SABR founder L. Robert Davids flew in the Air Force two years in WWII and spent much of his civilian career in the Defense Department.
I am also an enormous fan of Mr. Deford's SI collection, The World's Tallest Midget.
3.tshipman posted on May 13, 2012 at 12:53 AM #hit 0 | hit 0
Just because Orson Welles ended his life making commercials for Paul Masson doesn't nullify Citizen Kane or Touch of Evil.
Those commercial outtakes are one of his career highlights, sir.
I don't know, the idea of those two 80-year olds coming on at a SABR convention like they are going to take names and kick ass just makes my day. There has to be a video of that.
Around the same time that Welles was doing the Paul Masson commericials, John Huston did some that were a trip, too. It was in his best Chinatown sepulchral tones, and he was as drunk as Welles was in some of them, but it made him more deliberate. It was great. I can't remember what the ad was for.
5.God posted on May 13, 2012 at 02:35 AM #hit 0 | hit 0
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1. Morty Causa posted on May 12, 2012 at 04:48 PM # hit 0 | hit 0Deford gets taken down here, and he deserves it, for the most part, as to the matter in question, but he once was a great writer and commentator, and writers are just like athletes. They, too, have a life cycle. Just because Orson Welles ended his life making commercials for Paul Masson doesn't nullify Citizen Kane or Touch of Evil. A little sympathy might be in order.
I am also an enormous fan of Mr. Deford's SI collection, The World's Tallest Midget.
Those commercial outtakes are one of his career highlights, sir.
Around the same time that Welles was doing the Paul Masson commericials, John Huston did some that were a trip, too. It was in his best Chinatown sepulchral tones, and he was as drunk as Welles was in some of them, but it made him more deliberate. It was great. I can't remember what the ad was for.
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