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Mike Bell, wrestler and brother's film subject, dead at 37
WatchdogThe most thought-provoking, sports-related film I saw this year was "Bigger, Stronger, Faster," a fresh look at the stale topic of steroids by Christopher Bell, who candidly addresses his own family's involvement in that world. That includes prominently...Tags: Entertainment, Movies
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Mickey Rourke nominated for Oscar as pro wrestler
WatchdogMickey Rourke was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar, to the surprise of no one. If we stretch the definition of sports to include pro wrestling, he could join a small, quirky list of actors who have won the......Tags: Entertainment, Mickey Rourke, Wallace Beery, Tom Hanks, Russell Crowe
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Paterson on process: Regrets
Spin CyclePaterson is never asked about the Kennedy fiasco -- press secretary Errol Cockfield allows only four questions, two for Gillibrand, two for Paterson -- but he is asked when he decided on Gillibrand. He says he was 90 percent...... -
'The Wrestler' well worth seeing, but not for squeamish
WatchdogFinally saw "The Wrestler" Saturday night, which is sort of in my jurisdiction, as it is about a sort-of sport. As advertised, Mickey Rourke is excellent, as is Marisa Tomei. (She's 44? Really?) The movie works mostly as a character......Tags: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler (movie)
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Mankind and Paul Blart were high school teammates
WatchdogWhile talking to Mick Foley for my newspaper column, I asked the pro wrestling star about his high school wrestling teammate in Ward Melville's Class of 1983: Kevin (Paul Blart) James. "I was talking to friends of mine and saying,......Tags: Entertainment, Movies, State University of New York, New Hampshire, Education
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(Mankind) Foley endorses Mickey Rourke's 'Wrestler'
WatchdogHere is the main element of my Friday newspaper column, in which pro wrestling fixture Mick (Mankind) Foley, Ward Melville High alum and still a resident of the Town of Smithtown, talks about Mickey Rourke's performance in "The Wrestler," which......Tags: Mickey Rourke, Sports Illustrated, Academy Awards
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Schwarzenegger: 'Team player' w Obama
The Swampby Mark Silva Gov. Mark Sanford, Republican chief executive of South Carolina, says he won't be taking all of that federal stimulus money, complaining that, in a nation of $52 trillion of promises that aren't paid for, this is simply......Tags: Radio Industry, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Economy, Business and Finance, Philosophy
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Cornell establishes itself as college sports juggernaut
WatchdogCornell was the first team to qualify for the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Its hockey team is ranked 12th. Its lacrosse team is ranked fourth. Its wrestling team is ranked second. Wait . . . wrestling? Second? Really? Behind only......Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Iowa
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'Hell's Kitchen': Ramsay makes last-minute elimination
Reality CheckOn the most recent Hell's Kitchen, the women were rejoicing over Lacey’s transfer to the men’s team. They felt that they would be indestructible without their dead weight. Boy were they wrong. I’ll get to that later.The chefs went to.......Tags: Sports, Phil McGraw, Sumo Wrestling
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Spike Lee's Kobe Bryant film to premiere at Tribeca
WatchdogESPN announced the slate for its third annual portion of the Tribeca Film Festival late next month, headlined by the April 25 premiere of Spike Lee's "Kobe Doin' Work," in which he followed the Lakers star with cameras for a......Tags: Auto Racing, Entertainment, Multi-Sport Events, Sports, National Basketball Association
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G-20: $1 trillion and 'a new world order'
The SwampBy Christi Parsons and Mark Silva LONDON - The world's economic powers are offering $1 trillion in aid for struggling economies, with official communiqu??s and promises of "a new world order'' starting to roll out of the G-20 summit today:......Tags: United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, Economy, Economy, Business and Finance, United States
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Tribeca Film Festival Mini-Review No. 5
Watchdog"A Matter of Size," 92 minutes. Well, this is different: A film about sumo wrestling whose main character is a chef in his mid-30s and lives with his mother. Did I mention he is Israeli, and the film in Hebrew,......Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Sports, Sumo Wrestling, TriBeCa Film Festival
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