THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Monday, September 20, 2010

Roger Ebert v Phoenix+Affleck

By Tangotiger, 11:34 AM

Ebert does what I always hope forecasters do: test themselves. And, that he does. Ebert in his review of the movie pretty much presume the movie was not a hoax. Now that it’s been revealed it is a hoax, Ebert not only does an analysis of the movie based on how you went into the movie, but he also looks at the other “forecasters” to see what they thought of the movie before the beans were spilled. It makes for a great read.

By the way, Roger Ebert = Joe Posnanski. It’s pretty hard for either of them to write something bad. I mean, I am NEVER going to see that movie, but Ebert makes me want to see that movie. I just love the way these guys think and write.

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#1 (see all posts) 2010/09/20 (Mon) @ 13:23

You like reading what a guy writes about watching a movie?

Is it just me or I am the only one that finds that to be a combination of amusing and peculiar?

I like paintings of classic novels. *wink*

#2 Tangotiger (see all posts) 2010/09/20 (Mon) @ 13:29

As much as I like reading a guy that writes about watching a baseball game. Check out the classic Bill James, Royals 1985 World Series essay.

#3 (see all posts) 2010/09/20 (Mon) @ 14:06

Check out the classic Bill James, Royals 1985 World Series essay.

Or the 1960 John Updike essay, “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu”. That’s good writing no matter what the subject.

I have a special fondness for Roger Ebert, since he is an Urbana IL native and still comes back every April for his Roger Ebert Film Festival, despite the fact he can no longer speak.

#4 Tangotiger (see all posts) 2010/09/23 (Thu) @ 09:11

But the put-on of the night came from Letterman. He said that when he and his company asked to be paid a license fee by Affleck for using five minutes of “Late Show with David Letterman” in “I’m Still Here,” they were told that the excerpt was considered “fair use” for a documentary. In a comic gotcha moment, Letterman said that now they know it’s not a documentary—it’s “a theatrical ruse”—and “now you owe me a million bucks.” ("Can we talk about this in private?” Phoenix asked. “Yeah, we’ll go to one of your screenings,” Letterman suggested.)

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/movies/blog/2010/09/david_letterman_bests_joaquin.html

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