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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial><STRONG>Hey Everybody!!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Just because the Herald & Review has
stopped doing movie reviews, that's no reason to not have news on the movies
that are playing!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial><STRONG>Below is Avon fan Leonard Maltin's review
of "42" that is opening TODAY!!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4 face=Arial>By the way, "42" has a 72% positive rating
by the nation's critics. That's at least a THREE STAR review, and, more like a
THREE-AND-A HALF STAR national
rating!!<BR>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><STRONG>Harrison Ford and Chadwick Boseman as
Jackie Robinson<BR> in "42"<BR>Opening today at the Avon
Theater!!!!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>"42" reviewed by Leonard
Maltin</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><STRONG>Jackie Robinson made history as the first
black man to play on a major league baseball team, but he titled his
autobiography (which has just been reissued) <I>I Never Had It Made</I>. That
and the experiences dramatized in this superb new film give us some idea of
what the talented young athlete went through when he was recruited by Brooklyn
Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey.<BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><STRONG><FONT size=2><BR>Rickey knew that hiring a black player was
the right thing to do, and a good business move at the same time. He also knew
what kind of man it would take to endure the challenges and humiliations of
being the first man of color in an all-white baseball league. Newcomer Chadwick
Boseman does a fine job as Robinson, who not only had to win over racist fans,
team owners and managers but some of his own teammates, as well. His skill and
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><STRONG><FONT size=2>Ford’s performance is
said to be an accurate impression of the colorful Rickey, but it’s a bit too
calculated for my taste. It may just be that I can’t easily accept the familiar
Ford as this likably eccentric individual. Either way, the performance adds a
note of Hollywood corn to an otherwise straightforward telling of this
groundbreaking story. Nevertheless, writer-director Brian Helgeland brings it
all home because the raw material is just so strong.
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><STRONG><FONT size=2>I’ve become gun-shy
about trusting any film that’s telling a true story, so I don’t know how
accurate <I>42</I> is; diehard baseball fans will know better than I. But it
does hit the essential points of a great American saga, one that every young
person ought to know and some of us older viewers ought to know better. That’s
what matters most. <BR>c 2013 Leonard Maltin (used with
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