Showing posts with label Iowa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iowa. Show all posts
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Azuca'
An exchange between Sugar and Osvaldo about who their favorite player are follows a prior exchange between them in which Sugar tells Osvaldo that his favorite player is Clemente; Osvaldo tells Sugar his favorite is Vic Power: when Power was signed and sent to the US South in 1951, 1952. he went into a diner, and sat down; the waitress said to him, "sorry, but we don't served colored people" to which Power said "that's okay; I don't eat colored people/"
Labels:
Baseball,
Dominican Republic,
Iowa
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Field of Dreams
Continuing to watch films in which Burt Lancaster appeared, I went back to this one all these many years later. It holds up fine, but Kevin Costner has got to be one of the luckiest men alive: his range was narrow, his intonation absent, and his charisma weak. Still, a fine film.
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