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NYT’s ‘M*A*S*H’ Retrospective Lacks 20/20 Heinz Sight
Page One of yesterday’s Arts section in the New York Times featured James Poniewozik’s big takeout on the 5oth anniversary of the seminal television dramedy, “M*A*S*H.” ‘M*A*S*H’ at 50: War Is Hell(arious) Five decades ago, “M*A*S*H” anticipated today’s TV dramedies, … Continue reading
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Tagged American Heritage, Death of a Racehorse, Grantland Rice, H. Richard Hornberger, James Poniewozik, Jeff MacGregor, M*A*S*H, MASH4077TV, Nathan Ward, New York Times, Once They Heard the Cheers, Pete Hamill, Richard Hooker, Robert Altman, Sports Illustrated, The Professional, Tom Wolfe, W.C. Heinz, What a Time It Was, When We Were One
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Slate’s ‘Hang Up and Listen’ Totally Lacks 20-20 Heinz Sight
The hardworking staff yields to no man in our admiration and respect for Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin, hosts of the excellent Hang Up and Listen podcast. But we feel compelled to take issue with last week’s edition in which … Continue reading
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Tagged “The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!”, Bill Littlefield, David Halberstam, Eddie Arcaro, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Hang Up and Listen, John Swansburg, Josh Levin, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Kram Jr., New Journalism, New York Times, Pete Reiser, Slate, Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, The Man They Padded the Walls For, The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz, Tom Wolfe, W.C. Heinz, William Faulkner
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Leigh Montville Has 20/20 Heinz Sight in WSJ Review
The hardworking staff is a longtime fan of the great W.C. Heinz, and we’re hoping everyone else will catch up with us thanks to the Library of America’s new publication, The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W.C. … Continue reading
WSJ Piece Has 20-20 Heinz Sight
The hardworking staff is a longtime fanboy of the great W.C. Heinz – a superb WWII war correspondent and perhaps the greatest American sportswriter of the 20th Century (not to mention the co-author of M*A*S*H). (Our WGBH Heinz obit here.) Now comes … Continue reading
NYT’s Jim Brosnan Obit Lacks Heinz-Sight
Jim Brosnan, a baseball-hurler-turned-word-twirler, died last week, as the New York Times noted yesterday. From the estimable Bruce Weber’s obit: Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84 Jim Brosnan, who achieved modest baseball success as a relief … Continue reading
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Tagged A.J. Liebling, Bernard Malamud, Bruce Weber, Cincinnati Reds, Death of a Racehorse, Ernest Hemingway, Floyd Patterson, Frank Graham, Fred Lieb, Grantland Rice, Jim Brosnan, Jimmy Cannon, John Lardner, Jonathan Yardley, Lou Boudreau, Lou Gehrig: Boy of the Sandlots, New York Sun, New York Times, Once They Heard the Cheers, Player-Manager, Red Smith, Ring Lardner, Sports Illustrated, The Baseball Story, The Long Season, The Natural, W.C. Heinz, Washington Post, You Know Me Al
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Joseph Epstein Review Of Red Smith Anthology Lacks Heinz Sight
One of the several joys of subscribing to The Weekly Standard is the work of Joseph Epstein, a writer of uncommon sense and sensibility. His piece last week was a review of American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith, a Library … Continue reading
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Tagged American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith, Death of a Racehorse, Frank Graham, Grantland Rice, Jeff MacGregor, Jimmy Cannon, John Lardner, Joseph Epstein, Library of America, New York Sun, New York Times, Red Smith, Ring Lardner, Sports Illustrated, The Weekly Standard, W.C. Heinz
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Great American Sportswriter Lists Lack Heinz Sight
Two recent pieces (not to be confused with Reese’s Pieces) about American sportswriters have excluded one name from the roll call of the best at their craft: W.C. Heinz, Heavyweight Champion of the Word as Jeff MacGregor dubbed him in a … Continue reading
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Tagged A.J. Liebling, Brownsville Bum, Damon Runyon, Frank Deford, George Plimpton, Heavyweight Champion of the Word, Jeff MacGregor, Jim Murray, Jimmy Breslin, Last King of the Sports Page, New York Times, Nicholas Dawidoff, Once They Heard the Cheers, Red Smith, Ring Lardner, Roger Angell, Sports Illustrated, The Professional, W.C. Heinz, Wall Street Journal
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Heinz Sight Is 20-20
From our Late to the Party desk: The hardworking staff finally read the New York Times review of At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing (co-edited by redoubtable local scribe George Kimball). The anthology includes pretty much everyone you’d expect, … Continue reading
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Tagged A.J. Liebling, At the Fights, Brownsville Bum, Bummy Davis, George Kimball, M*A*S*H, Norman Mailer, Pete Hamill, W.C. Heinz
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I Was Dr. Ads: My 45 Years in the Boston Media Trenches (IV)
Part 1 (1975-1988) is here. Part 2 (1988-1994) is here. Part 3 (1994-1998) is here. I produced about 75 pieces in my first six months as a reporter for Greater Boston – that’s about 12 pieces a month, three pieces … Continue reading
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Quote o’ the Day (Tom McNeeley Edition)
From the New York Times obit of Cambridge native Thomas William McNeely Jr., a heavyweight boxer whose most notable fight was a 1961 heavyweight championship bout against the great-but-troubled Floyd Patterson (see What a Time It Was, by the great … Continue reading
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