An American enigma comes poetically and touchingly to life in "First Man," a nervy account of the American space program and the astronaut years of Neil Armstrong, culminating with "One small step for man." Ryan Gosling, like Sam Shepard's Chuck Yeager and Tom Hanks' Jim Lowell in earlier spaceflight histories, sets out to embody a buttoned-down, stoic American "type" -- a "Mad Men" era man's man with "The Right Stuff" -- and succeeds, filling the gaps about a most famous, most private and press-shy hero, making the iconic Armstrong flesh and bone. [ 715 more words ]
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What kind of lowlife would bet on Little League baseball games? Not the Little League World Series. Surely Vegas has action on that. I'm talking local sandlot ball, small town, setting "the line" and all that? If you've seen any movies about the kids' version of America's Pastime, your first thought would be "Buttermaker," the drunken kid-hating ex-ballplayer and very bad influence on "The Bad News Bears." [ 849 more words ]
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