Yankees Eliminated, Bell Tolls for Torre

What happened at Yankee Stadium last night, after the Yankees lost to the Indians 6-4 in the fourth game of the American League division series and the fans were filing mournfully out of the stadium?

George Steinbrenner, the Yankees' principal owner, who had tied Torre's future to the outcome of this series, was said to Read More

Yankees Save Their Skins With Victory Over Indians

The Yankees saved their skins—and by some accounts, their manager Joe Torre—when they rallied past a two-run deficit and Roger Clemens’ injured hamstring to beat the Cleveland Indians last night at Yankee Stadium 8 to 4.

Johnny Damon, who put the Yankees to sleep three Octobers ago with a grand slam as a Red Sox Read More

Cassavetes, Volatile Contrarian, Mulish Master of Improvisation

The movies of John Cassavetes are for and by actors—at their worst, they’re about actors, too. All those grainy close-ups that the director insisted on may be truthful, but it’s the truth of behavior, not drama—drama demands a sense of narrative.

Movies like Faces (1968), A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Killing of a Read More

Cassavetes, Volatile Contrarian, Mulish Master of Improvisation

The movies of John Cassavetes are for and by actors—at their worst, they’re about actors, too. All those grainy close-ups that the director insisted on may be truthful, but it’s the truth of behavior, not drama—drama demands a sense of narrative.

Movies like Faces (1968), A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Killing of Read More

Sunny Side’s Up In Bella Tuscany

After all the dark, dreary and depressing movies I slogged my way through at the Toronto International Film Festival, I doubt if you can fully appreciate the sheer joy I felt upon returning home to Under the Tuscan Sun . The epitome of what a feel-good movie is supposed to be but rarely is, this Read More

Chuck Still Amuck

Cablevision Systems Corporation founder and chairman Charles

Dolan just keeps on bidding. Although the bidding for the Boston Red Sox closed

formally on Dec. 20, his latest $790 million bid (including $40 million in

assumed team debt) to buy the team, submitted late Monday night, keeps throwing

the talks into disarray. Negotiations among the competing Read More

Now Batting for Bernie Williams: Superagent Boras Squeezes Yanks

“Joe Torre is here,” said George Grande, “and Scott Boras is here, too.”

A banquet hall full of amateur and professional baseball players, coaches, writers, players’ association officials and mayoral advance men stiffened a little when Mr. Grande, the master of ceremonies for amateur baseball’s Golden Spikes Award dinner on Nov. 11 at the Waldorf-Astoria Read More