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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
New DVDs out today in the Merrick Library...
"42" - based on the inspiring true story of how major league baseball finally did become "the national pastime" with the arrival of Jackie Robinson - starring Chadwick Bozeman as Robinson and Harrison Ford as Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey
"Bullet to the Head" - a hitman and a policeman share one aim in common: wipe out those who murdered their partners - stars Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang and Christian Slater
"Erased" - Aaron Eckhart ("Rum Diary") and Liana Liberato ("Trespass") play an unusual father-daughter combination: he's an ex-CIA agent marked for death and she hardly knows him!
"42" is a splendid historical movie that captures in the words of Dodger broadcaster Walter "Red" Barber that "year when all hell broke loose in baseball." Many fine supporting performances back up Bozeman and Ford including Christopher Meloni (TV's "Law and Order: SVU) as Leo Durocher, Max Gail (TV's "Barney Miller" as manager Burt Shotton, John C. McGinley (TV's "Scrubs) as the aforementioned Barber and expecially Nicole Maharie as Rachel Robinson. If there is a biography of the widow Robinson out there will someone tell me. The lady has never truly received tribute for what she did to support Jackie in those first Dodger years. Perhaps Miss Maharie's performance is a step in that direction
"42" is a splendid historical movie that captures in the words of Dodger broadcaster Walter "Red" Barber that "year when all hell broke loose in baseball." Many fine supporting performances back up Bozeman and Ford including Christopher Meloni (TV's "Law and Order: SVU) as Leo Durocher, Max Gail (TV's "Barney Miller" as manager Burt Shotton, John C. McGinley (TV's "Scrubs) as the aforementioned Barber and expecially Nicole Maharie as Rachel Robinson. If there is a biography of the widow Robinson out there will someone tell me. The lady has never truly received tribute for what she did to support Jackie in those first Dodger years. Perhaps Miss Maharie's performance is a step in that direction
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