The New York Times‘ Richard Goldstein reports that former light-heavyweight champion and author José Torres has died in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He was 72-years-old.
Mr. Torres, whose professional heyday was between 1958 and 1969 (YouTube has a couple of clips: Torres v. Carl ‘Bobo’ Olson in 1964; Torres v. Willie Pastrano from Read More
“He’s got to be the angriest man on the planet earth,” said Roger Green, talking this afternoon about Charles Barron. “He must wake up in the morning and just start taking swings at anybody.”
According to Green — who placed third, after Barron, in a primary against incumbent Congressman Ed Towns — he was prepared Read More
Maybe Angelo Dundee, the wise and wizened trainer of Muhammad Ali, should have been a political consultant. Mr. Dundee, who knows every trick of the boxing trade, is fond of observing that “there is no advantage too small to take.”
In politics, the average campaign operative clings to that ethos as tightly as a woozy Read More
My interest in Marc Salem’s Mind Games on Broadway should come as no surprise to those who know me. I’ve been intrigued by mind-reading and its allied arts since I was a child and knew no better.
For example, I share something in common with Orson Welles and Muhammad Ali. I’m a sucker for Read More
Among the marquee titles that played briefly before the end of 2001 to qualify for Academy Awards but are just now opening their regular commercial runs, Michael Mann’s Ali is big enough and ambitious enough to deserve some attention. It is well-intentioned, sketchy, sprawling and unremarkable. At two hours and 38 minutes, it is also Read More
What makes New York artists–especially the straight ones–think they’re so totally groovy? Julien Schnabel, Mathew Barney (who’s dating Björk), Damien Loeb, David Salle, Jeff Koons–who or what gave these high self-esteem sufferers the idea that they are so unimpeachably hip, and why are they so desperate to be groovy in the first place? Are these Read More
