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Once Upon a Time in a Western

The journeyman (2001).

One brother is carried off by the gang after being drug behind a horse. The younger brother hides in an outhouse and is rescued by passing priest.

Thirteen years later, Morphinist (Brad Hunt) is a morphine-addicted, cold-hearted killer. Men, women, children. It matters not.

He seemingly kills for sport, between getting high to chase away his inner demons. He’s not above sacrificing partners either, as he does during his get-away after robbing the office of the Ledbetter mining company.

Ledbetter sets out on his trail with an able scout named Silas, a loud-mouthed braggart named Horace and a vengeance-seeking cowboy named Dixie.

He also has a mysterious and very quiet stranger as part of his posse.

The stranger, of course, is the Journeyman (Daniel Lapaine), trying to track down his brother, trying to see if he can be saved.

But Morphinist has scores to settle.

That’s if enemies with a score to settle like former partner Walter P. Higgs don’t settle theirs first.

David Lapaine as the Journeyman in The Journeyman (2001)

Brad Hunt as Morphinist in The Journeyman (2002)

A low-budget Western with a bigger budget feel. Willie Nelson’s guest starring role lasts all of 2 minutes at the start of the film, but his demise leaves the film in the hands of a capable cast, including Brad Hunt as one of the more vicious villains you’ll run across.

Little touches make this film unique. Like Ezikiel Gore’s Whores. Like the young boy who’s helping hold up Leadbetter’s payroll office. Like the other bank robber who insists his victims learn his name.

The final shootout is particularly well done.

Barry Corbin as Charlie Ledbetter in The Journeyman (2001)

Dash Mihok as Walter P. Higgs III in The Journeyman (2001)

Directed by: James Crowley

Cast: Brad Hunt … Morphinist Daniel Lapaine … Journeyman Barry Corbin … Charlie Ledbetter Arie Verveen … Horace Marywell Dash Mihok … Walter P. Higgs III Burton Gilliam …. Silas Bishop Christopher Dahlberg … Dixie Little John Beasley … Cleofas Assumpta Serna … Cleopatra Leon Singer … Lucio Willie Nelson … Samuel Hancock L.J. Buleson … Frank

Runtime: 93 min.

Christopher Dahlberg as Dixie Little in The Journeyman (2001)

Arie Verveen as Horace Marywell in The Journeyman (2001)

Memorable lines:

Morphinist: “People remember evil long after they’ve forgotten good.”

Ledbetter: “You talk too much, Horace. Plain and simple, you talk too god damned much.”

Willie Nelson as Samuel Hancock in The Journeyman (2001)

Assumpta Serna as Cleopatra in The Journeyman (2001)

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'For Love & Life' tracks one man's journey from ALS diagnosis to big-time fundraiser

In 2017, at age 37, Brian Wallach, a former attorney in the Obama administration, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive, incurable neurodegenerative disease — and was given six months to live. This, on the same day that he and his wife, Sandra Abrevaya, brought their second daughter home from the hospital.

Somehow, Wallach is still alive. Although deeply, physically compromised, the onetime federal criminal prosecutor and assistant U.S. attorney has soldiered on, co-founding (with Abrevaya) the vital nonprofit support organization I AM ALS and testifying before Congress on behalf of ALS assistance.

Wallach and Abrevaya’s efforts, which include additional lobbying work on Capitol Hill, helped lead to the 2021 passage and signage of the Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act . The landmark bill, co-written by Wallach, unlocked half a billion dollars for ALS research.

Wallach and Abrevaya’s profound and vital journey was captured by filmmaker Christopher Burke, an old college friend of Wallach’s, for what would become the inspiring and uplifting Prime Video documentary “For Love & Life: No Ordinary Campaign.”

Read more: Katie Couric steps in to produce ALS campaign film

The Envelope recently chatted via Zoom with Wallach (whose limited speech capacity requires an interpreter), Abrevaya and Burke about the making of the film (shot from 2019 to 2022) and their mission to increase awareness for the devastating disease.

Let’s start from the beginning: Chris, how did the film come together, and was it always planned as a feature documentary?

Chris Burke: When I found out about Brian’s diagnosis, I offered to help in any way I could. Initially, it was to shoot a little launch promo for I AM ALS. But when I started filming, I realized there was way more going on than we could possibly encapsulate into one 60-second spot. Then, when I tagged along with Brian to his April 2019 testimony in front of the House Appropriations Committee… I was starting to see how Brian and Sandra operated and how their growing movement was coming together. I realized that we were going to be in it for the long haul.

When did you know you were shooting a full-length documentary?

Burke: When I started sharing the raw footage with my producing partner, Tim [Rummel], he was, like, “You’ve got to stick with this. What if we craft it into a feature doc?” We realized ultimately that that would be the most potentially powerful form to reach the largest number of people in a substantial way.

Brian and Sandra, were you always on board with doing the film, knowing how intimate, long and taxing the process could be? 

Brian Wallach: I knew right away that it was going to be important to open up all our lives that way. People could see the good parts and the bad parts, and they could understand what ALS looks like and how it impacts people living with it. And I knew Chris would make a beautiful documentary.

Sandra Abrevaya: I was very hesitant, but it turns out every time Brian has a big new idea, I’m nervous about it. Then I end up doing it and he ends up saying, “I told you so.” One thing I did know is that Brian and I are authentically hopeful about this disease transforming from fatal to chronic and that the more we could open up about our own story and really bring people into our lives, the better we could communicate that message.

Chris, this is a fairly compact, fast-paced film, yet also quite informative. What was your approach to shaping the narrative?

Burke : My way in was Brian. I didn’t know anything about ALS any more than Brian did when he was diagnosed. That’s how it starts for a lot of people; I was learning along the way. Brian and Sandra’s love story forms the spine of [the film] but then we had to make people understand the basics of this disease: what it is, what it does to bodies, what it does to families, what it does to caregivers and how this movement, simultaneously led by these two, is combating that in such an amazing way.

Sounds like a lot to balance.

Burke: It was. We made a very conscious choice to keep it on the briefer side because it is challenging subject matter. It’s not meant to be a fully in-depth academic study. It’s designed to give a lot of different threads to pull on all under the umbrella of this personal story of Brian and Sandra, but also of the other [ALS-affected] families who we feature as well. We really wanted to underscore the cohesive community action of a lot of different people.

Brian, knowing what you know now, what do you tell people with ALS who are also given six months to live? 

Wallach: To not be afraid and to ask for help, because everybody will need help along the journey. I also say that I’m more hopeful today than when I was diagnosed because we have a lot of treatments in the pipeline. And I know that some of them will help us all live longer and be here to see ALS become a chronic disease.

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The Best Very Sad Movies of All Time

Posted: January 2, 2024 | Last updated: January 2, 2024

What makes a movie sad? Doomed romance, dashed hopes, the demise of a beloved institution or a way of life … and death, of course — of a loved one, a self-sacrificing hero, a sad-eyed animal.

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By researching published lists of sad movies on Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and weighing in ourselves, based on our own film-going experiences and definitions of “sad,” 24/7 Tempo was able to come up with a list of, what we think could fairly be considered, the saddest movies ever made.

24/7 Tempo began with more than 600 movies found on the user-created lists of sad films found on Internet Movie Database (IMDb) to determine the saddest movies of all time. Next, we narrowed down the list by choosing films that were the most popular with both amateur and professional viewers, considering the Rotten Tomatoes average critic and audience ratings and the IMDb average user ratings.

We picked the films with at least 10,000 user ratings between IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes and 10 approved “Tomatometer” critic reviews. Once we had that list, we brought editorial discretion into play, deleting movies that didn’t seem sufficiently moving and adding some that we deemed essential. The list includes everything from animations to exceptional fact-based movies — these are the 50 best movies based on true events .

Here are the saddest movies ever made

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

• IMDb rating: 8.1 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 98%
• RT audience score: 89%
• Directed by: Lewis Milestone
• Starring: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy

Hailed as one of the best war movies ever made, this World War I epic follows young German schoolboys who enlist in the army and witness the horrors of battle, coming to realize that there’s nothing glorious or romantic about war. The main character, Paul, who at one point tries to save the life of a French soldier he has stabbed, is himself killed at the end as he reaches for a butterfly.

The Way We Were (1973)

• IMDb rating: 7.1 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 64%
• RT audience score: 81%
• Directed by: Sydney Pollack
• Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles

Spanning the decades that encompass the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Red Scare, “The Way We Were” follows an unlikely couple with radically different personalities — she a liberal, Jewish political activist and he a Waspy writer who couldn’t care less about politics — as their differences put immense strain on their relationship.

The Towering Inferno (1974)

• IMDb rating: 7.0 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 70%
• RT audience score: 72%
• Directed by: John Guillermin
• Starring: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway

On the night of its grand opening, a poorly-built office building catches fire in this seminal disaster flick. Fire department Chief Michael O’Halloran (Steve McQueen) resorts to extreme measures as he tries to save all those trapped inside. Not everyone makes it out alive.

Autumn Sonata (1978)

• Tomatometer score: 87%
• RT audience score: 92%
• Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
• Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman

An aging world-famous pianist travels to a small village to visit the daughter she hasn’t seen for years. To her dismay, her second daughter, who is mentally disabled, is present in the house. Despite the tragedies all have endured, the mother and the first daughter reveal long pent-up feelings to each other opening the road to reconciliation.

The Elephant Man (1980)

• Tomatometer score: 92%
• RT audience score: 93%
• Directed by: David Lynch
• Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud

David Lynch’s sophomore feature examines the life of John Merrick (John Hurt), a disfigured man with an intelligent disposition. As he goes from circus sideshow to high society, Merrick encounters different forms of exploitation. His story was inspired by Joseph Carey Merrick, the subject of both previous books and a 1979 play.

Sophie’s Choice (1982)

• IMDb rating: 7.6 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 78%
• RT audience score: 85%
• Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
• Starring: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin

In this film based on William Styron’s novel of the same name, Sophie, a Polish immigrant living in Brooklyn just after World War II, recounts to a young writer the horrible circumstances of her “choice.” Arrested and sent to Auschwitz with her two children, she is forced to decide which one will be killed and which will survive.

Silkwood (1983)

• IMDb rating: 7.2 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 74%
• RT audience score: 78%
• Directed by: Mike Nichols
• Starring: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson

Meryl Streep plays real-life whistleblower Karen Silkwood in this gripping biographical drama. It follows her efforts to uncover safety violations at her place of employment, the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant. She soon finds herself the target of vicious harassment with tragic consequences.

Mask (1985)

• Tomatometer score: 93%
• RT audience score: 83%
• Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
• Starring: Cher, Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliott, Estelle Getty

This award-winning drama tells the true story of teenager Roy L. “Rocky” Dennis (played by Eric Stoltz), who suffers from craniodiaphyseal dysplasia. With support from his no-nonsense mother (Cher), Rocky learns to overcome prejudices and gain acceptance from his peers. Bring tissues.

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

• IMDb rating: 8.5 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 100%
• RT audience score: 95%
• Directed by: Isao Takahata
• Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Shinohara

Animated films are infrequently amongst the saddest, especially when they involve children. “Grave of the Fireflies” is the major exception. The harrowing anime follows the lives of a young brother and sister in Japan during the final days of World War II. Film critic Ernest Rister has called it “the most profoundly human animated film [he’s] ever seen.”

Paperhouse (1988)

• IMDb rating: 6.6 / 10
• RT audience score: 71%
• Directed by: Bernard Rose
• Starring: Charlotte Burke, Jane Bertish, Samantha Cahill

This British drama follows sickly 11-year-old Anna in a dream world of her own creation. It’s there that she meets a young boy named Marc, who turns out to exist in real life. The story is based on a 1958 novel, which had previously inspired a six-part TV series called “Escape into Night.”

Dead Poets Society (1989)

• Tomatometer score: 84%
• Directed by: Peter Weir
• Starring: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles

Social and educational dynamics at a private boys’ school in New England in the 1950s provide the setting for this elegiac and inspiring Robin Williams vehicle. An unorthodox teacher (Williams), a resurrected secret society, a martinet father, and a school play lead up to a tragic suicide and the teacher’s dismissal.

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

• IMDb rating: 7.9 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 90%
• RT audience score: 91%
• Directed by: Tim Burton
• Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall

Director Tim Burton channels personal feelings of alienation and artistic ambition through the avatar of Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp) in this iconic fantasy. An artificial man with scissors for hands, Edward struggles to find his place in the suburbs. Composer Danny Elfman’s magical score helps bring the story to life.

My Girl (1991)

• IMDb rating: 6.9 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 53%
• RT audience score: 77%
• Directed by: Howard Zieff
• Starring: Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis

This blockbuster dramedy takes place in 1972 and centers on the adventures of a young girl (Anna Chlumsky) and her best friend (Macaulay Culkin). Chock full of coming-of-age themes, it features breakout performances and an ending that left most viewers in tears.

King of the Hill (1993)

• IMDb rating: 7.4 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 91%
• RT audience score: 84%
• Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
• Starring: Jesse Bradford, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen

Steven Soderbergh directed and wrote the screenplay for “King of the Hill,” which follows a young boy living alone in a hotel after his mother is hospitalized and his father fails to return from a business trip.

Philadelphia (1993)

• IMDb rating: 7.7 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 81%
• Directed by: Jonathan Demme
• Starring: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman

This acclaimed drama is widely considered the first mainstream Hollywood film to directly tackle the AIDS crisis. It stars Tom Hanks as lawyer and HIV victim Andrew Beckett, who sues his former employer for discrimination. Denzel Washington co-stars.

Schindler’s List (1993)

• IMDb rating: 8.9 / 10
• RT audience score: 97%
• Directed by: Steven Spielberg
• Starring: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall

Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” has amassed great critical and audience acclaim since its release. It’s been included on countless lists of “best movies” and is currently the highest-rated film on IMDb. This admiration doesn’t make this Holocaust drama, centered around a heroic factory owner who saves countless Jews, any less harrowing.

Forrest Gump (1994)

• IMDb rating: 8.8 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 71%
• Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
• Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

Clocking in at nearly two and a half hours, “Forrest Gump” has everything from comedy to romance. Yet the film leaves viewers on a rather low note, related to protagonist Forrest losing the love of his life. The ending didn’t dissuade audiences from flocking to the movie, which grossed over $675 million worldwide.

The Cure (1995)

• Tomatometer score: 45%
• Directed by: Peter Horton
• Starring: Joseph Mazzello, Brad Renfro, Aeryk Egan, Delphine French

Best friends Erik (Brad Renfro) and Dexter (Joseph Mazzello) journey down the Mississippi River in this heartfelt drama. Their destination is New Orleans, where they hope to find a cure for Dexter’s AIDS.

A Time to Kill (1996)

• IMDb rating: 7.5 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 68%
• Directed by: Joel Schumacher
• Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey

Adapted from John Grisham’s debut novel, this courtroom drama takes place in the heart of Mississippi. When a young Black girl is brutally attacked, her father seeks righteous vengeance. The trial that follows examines themes of racial injustice in the Deep South.

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

• IMDb rating: 8.6 / 10
• RT audience score: 96%
• Directed by: Roberto Benigni
• Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini

When an Italian Jewish poet and his young son are arrested by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp, the man tells his son that they’re on vacation and tries to turn the whole experience into a game.

The Ice Storm (1997)

• Tomatometer score: 85%
• RT audience score: 82%
• Directed by: Ang Lee
• Starring: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny

From director Ang Lee comes this acclaimed drama, which captures an ensemble cast at the top of its game. The story follows two upper-middle-class families as they explore taboo behavior in early 1970s Connecticut. It “captures this place, this season, this garish and confused moment in history, with surgical precision,” wrote critic David Ansen for Newsweek.

American History X (1998)

• Tomatometer score: 83%
• Directed by: Tony Kaye
• Starring: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D’Angelo, Jennifer Lien

A high school student is assigned to write a paper about his older brother, a former neo-Nazi leader, and becomes involved with white supremacists himself. Both eventually repent, but after he turns in his paper, the younger brother is killed by a black student, leaving his older sibling to mourn.

Boys Don’t Cry (1999)

• Tomatometer score: 89%
• RT audience score: 87%
• Directed by: Kimberly Peirce
• Starring: Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III

A young transgender man falls in love with a woman who is unconcerned with his sexual identity. The woman’s unenlightened male friends beat and rape the man. Later, they get drunk and decide to kill him, which they do despite his lover’s pleas.

The Green Mile (1999)

• RT audience score: 94%
• Directed by: Frank Darabont
• Starring: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt

Set in the 1930s, this sprawling drama centers on the lives of Death Row guards at a Southern penitentiary. With the introduction of convicted murderer John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) comes a story of injustice, tragedy, magic, and redemption. It’s all based on Stephen King’s serialized novel of the same name.

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

• Tomatometer score: 69%
• Directed by: Lars von Trier
• Starring: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse

This heart-tugging tale, set in Washington state in 1964, stars the Icelandic pop star Björk as a musical-loving Czech immigrant who is slowly going blind from a genetic condition. As she desperately tries to save money for an operation that will prevent her young son from suffering the same fate, she periodically breaks into song and dance. Her cop neighbor, himself in need of funds, steals from her, leading to a deadly confrontation.

Pay It Forward (2000)

• Tomatometer score: 39%
• Directed by: Mimi Leder
• Starring: Kevin Spacey, Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt, Jay Mohr

A young boy (Haley Joel Osment) takes a social studies assignment to heart in this saccharine melodrama. His idea of “paying it forward” (i.e. passing selfless favors onto others) kicks off a national wave of human kindness. Audiences were more receptive to the film than critics, many of whom found it a bit too self-righteous and sentimental.

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

• IMDb rating: 8.3 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 79%
• Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
• Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans

Darren Aronofsky’s sophomore feature delivers a brutal examination of the nature of addiction. Based on Hubert Selby Jr.’s similarly gritty novel, it depicts four Coney Island residents as they sink into various states of despair.

One Hour Photo (2002)

• IMDb rating: 6.8 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 82%
• RT audience score: 65%
• Directed by: Mark Romanek
• Starring: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Dylan Smith

A lonely photo technician (Robin Williams) develops a twisted obsession with a family of loyal customers in this psychological thriller. As he plunges himself into their lives, dark secrets bubble to the surface.

The Pianist (2002)

• Tomatometer score: 95%
• Directed by: Roman Polanski
• Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox

Based on the life of Polish-Jewish pianist and Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman, this saga follows the man’s experiences during the Nazi occupation of his native country. After his family is shipped off to the death camp, he helps smuggle arms to Resistance fighters, witnesses the unsuccessful Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, is taken in by a sympathetic Nazi officer, and survives the war.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

• Directed by: Michel Gondry
• Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Gerry Robert Byrne

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” stands out from other films thanks to its relentless creativity, driven by the film’s director Michel Gondry, and co-writer Charlie Kaufman. The clever direction and original screenwriting help highlight a story of heartbreak, in which two former lovers attempt to remove all memories of their failed relationship.

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

• Directed by: Terry George
• Starring: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Xolani Mali

In the African Republic of Rwanda in 1994, civil war rages between the two principal ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi. The manager of Belgian-owned Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, the country’s capital, turns the high-class hotel into a refuge for persecuted Tutsi until he and his family, along with the refugees, are able to flee to safety.

World Trade Center (2006)

• IMDb rating: 5.9 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 67%
• RT audience score: 60%
• Directed by: Oliver Stone
• Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña , Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Follow two Port Authority police officers (Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña ) as they respond to the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and get caught under collapsed rubble. Director Oliver Stone eschews politics in favor of taut visuals and a melodramatic tone.

Atonement (2007)

• IMDb rating: 7.8 / 10
• RT audience score: 80%
• Directed by: Joe Wright
• Starring: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Saoirse Ronan

On the eve of World War II, a country house romance between a young woman from a wealthy family and the housekeeper’s son is interrupted when he is unjustly accused by the woman’s jealous sister of raping a young relative. He goes to prison and then into the army. Before he ships out, he apparently has one last meeting with his love, who has remained true to him and believes in his innocence. In the end, we learn that the meeting was invented as part of a novel written by the now-elderly sister, as an act of atonement for her lie. The young man died of blood poisoning at the Battle of Dunkirk, and his love was drowned in a London subway tunnel that flooded after a German bomb attack.

Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

• RT audience score: 70%
• Directed by: Gabor Csupo
• Starring: Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb, Zooey Deschanel, Robert Patrick

Katherine Paterson’s heart-wrenching novel laid the groundwork for this coming-of-age drama, in which two young outcasts escape to a fantasy world. Rife with CGI visuals and richly drawn characters, it offers an enduring take on the value of friendship and imagination.

Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007)

• IMDb rating: 6.2 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 38%
• RT audience score: 55%
• Directed by: Zach Helm
• Starring: Natalie Portman, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Bateman, Ted Ludzik

This children’s fantasy film welcomes viewers to a magical toy store, owned by the eccentric Mr. Magorium (Dustin Hoffman). Manager Molly Mahoney (Natalie Portman) prepares to take over the operation, but can only do so if she truly believes in both magic and in herself.

Milk (2008)

• Directed by: Gus Van Sant
• Starring: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna

Sean Penn won an Oscar for his portrayal of real-life activist and martyr Harvey Milk in this biographical drama. Set in the 1970s, it chronicles Milk’s rise into politics and his tireless advocacy for gay rights. Gus Van Sant directs.

Seven Pounds (2008)

• Tomatometer score: 27%
• RT audience score: 75%
• Directed by: Gabriele Muccino
• Starring: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy

Forever burdened by a tragic event, a man (Will Smith) seeks redemption by changing the lives of seven strangers. The film makes compelling use of narrative devices such as flashbacks, retaining the air of a mystery as it builds toward one final reveal.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

• Directed by: Mark Herman
• Starring: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Zac Mattoon O’Brien

The eight-year-old son (Asa Butterfield) of a Nazi Commander befriends a concentration camp prisoner (Jack Scanlon) in this Holocaust drama. Innocence gives way to experience as the story builds toward its unforgettable conclusion.

The Lovely Bones (2009)

• IMDb rating: 6.7 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 32%
• RT audience score: 52%
• Directed by: Peter Jackson
• Starring: Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon

This supernatural thriller drama tells the story of a young girl who is murdered. She now watches over her family and her killer and must choose between revenge and helping her family move on.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

• RT audience score: 61%
• Directed by: Stephen Daldry
• Starring: Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Max von Sydow

A young boy (Thomas Horn) uncovers the mysterious key that his deceased father left behind in this sentimental drama. That sends him on a journey across New York City, where the shadow of 9/11 still looms large. It’s based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s best-selling novel of the same name.

Restless (2011)

• RT audience score: 48%
• Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Schuyler Fisk

This Gus Van Sant drama centers on the romance between a terminally ill girl (Mia Wasikowska) and a death-obsessed boy (Henry Hopper). Coping with tragedy provides for an overarching motif.

Amour (2012)

• Directed by: Michael Haneke
• Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert

This French tear-jerker is about two former musicians and piano teachers, husband and wife, both in their 80s. One morning, the woman has a stroke and ends up partially paralyzed. When she gets out of the hospital, her husband promises she will never go back, and when he can no longer care for her, he tells her a story, then smothers her. He covers her body with flowers and seals the room she’s in, then imagines her washing dishes in the kitchen.

What Maisie Knew (2012)

• Directed by: Scott McGehee & David Siegel
• Starring: Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgard, Steve Coogan, Joanna Vanderham

A young girl gets stuck in the middle of a bitter custody battle between two self-absorbed parents in this searing drama. As the saga unfolds, it causes potentially irreversible damage to her psychological development. Onata Aprile gives a knockout performance as Maisie.

12 Years a Slave (2013)

• RT audience score: 90%
• Directed by: Steve McQueen
• Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt

Based on an 1853 memoir by a free black man from Saratoga, New York, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, this film convincingly evokes the cruelty of plantation life, but it also pays tribute to the resilience of the enslaved. Though the story ends with the hero returning to his home and family, he has lost 12 years of his life and missed seeing his children grow into adults.

• IMDb rating: 8.0 / 10
• Tomatometer score: 94%
• Directed by: Spike Jonze
• Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara

In the near future, a lonely introvert going through a divorce buys an operating system with artificial intelligence, gives her a female identity, and falls in love with her. She apparently reciprocates. All goes well until she tells him that she interacts with thousands of other people, too, and is in love with 641 of them. She then tells him that she and other similar operating systems have evolved beyond humanity, and leaves for another plane of being.

The Book Thief (2013)

• Tomatometer score: 48%
• RT audience score: 73%
• Directed by: Brian Percival
• Starring: Sophie Nelisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Ben Schnetzer

Young orphan Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) develops a passion for reading in this WWII drama, adapted from a best-selling novel. When her adoptive parents take in a Jewish refugee, it puts their lives at risk. Audiences were kinder to the film than critics.

Still Alice (2014)

• Directed by: Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland
• Starring: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth

Grappling with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease, a linguistics professor (Julianne Moore) slowly loses her sense of identity. All the while, her family watches on in despair. The film earned Moore an Academy Award for Best Actress.

The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

• Directed by: Josh Boone
• Starring: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff, Laura Dern

Based on John Green’s best-selling novel, this coming-of-age drama follows two teenage cancer patients (Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort) on a life-changing journey. It was shot on an estimated budget of just $12 million, earning over $307 million at the worldwide box office.

A Monster Calls (2016)

• Tomatometer score: 86%
• Directed by: J.A. Bayona
• Starring: Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell

Beset by his mother’s illness, (Felicity Jones), a young boy (Lewis MacDougall) makes an unlikely friend in the form of a magic tree monster (voiced by Liam Neeson). Writing for The Australian, critic David Stratton calls it “a small, almost delicate film that will richly reward those who connect with it.”

Christine (2016)

• Tomatometer score: 88%
• Directed by: Antonio Campos
• Starring: Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, Maria Dizzia

Based on actual events, this biographical drama stars Rebecca Hall as 1970s TV reporter Christine Chubbuck. Determined to succeed in a highly competitive industry, Chubbuck’s growing depression gives way to an unforgettable public act.

Call Me By Your Name (2017)

• RT audience score: 86%
• Directed by: Luca Guadagnino
• Starring: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar

Against a bucolic backdrop, romance blossoms between a male college graduate (Armie Hammer) and a teenage boy ( Timothée Chalamet). But it wasn’t meant to be.

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

• Directed by: Barry Jenkins
• Starring: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Teyonah Parris

Oscar-nominated “If Beale Street Could Talk” tells the story of a pregnant woman in the 1970s in Harlem on a mission to prove that her fiancé is innocent of the crime he was arrested for.

Roma (2018)

• Tomatometer score: 96%
• Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón
• Starring: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta

“Roma” tells the story of an indigenous live-in housekeeper in Mexico City in the 1970s. Problems arise when her boyfriend abandons her after she gets pregnant and her employer runs away with his mistress.

Pieces of a Woman (2020)

• Tomatometer score: 75%
• Directed by: Kornél Mundruczó
• Starring: Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Iliza Shlesinger

Vanessa Kirby was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as a young woman whose baby dies during child labor. The harrowing movie examines how a family deals with the loss of a child.

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10 Ways Tom Holland's Spider-Man 4 Could Be A "Significant Event" For The MCU

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• Peter Parker faces a new journey post- No Way Home, with Aunt May gone and relationships reset.
• Potential for Spider-Man 4 to explore Peter's PTSD and mirror Tony Stark's journey in Iron Man 3.
• Spider-Man likely to face "street level" threats, setting up a darker story and potential team-up with Daredevil.

Peter Parker could follow an upsetting path in Iron Man's journey according to a Spider-Man 4 theory. After Spider-Man: No Way Home , the future isn't clear for the MCU 's Spider-Man. The Homecoming trilogy was essentially a lengthy origin story for him, and he is now in a place where he can make his own destiny. Aunt May is gone, and all of Peter's relationships have been reset since no one remembers who he is. It's a situation viewers haven't seen Spider-Man in before, and it'll be refreshing to see where the series goes.

One criticism Tom Holland's Spider-Man has faced is that he often feels like Iron Man Jr. and needs to establish himself as an independent character rather than Tony Stark's apprentice. No Way Home 's ending appeared to wipe that away, since Peter has no connections to the Avengers or their resources anymore. While he may not be living off of Tony's technology, there is still one way that Peter could follow Iron Man's journey in the MCU timeline , and that includes a troubling storyline for Spider-Man 4 .

Tom Holland's Spider-Man 4 has received an exciting update, and there are some great stories to make the MCU movie the event it is teased to be.

Peter Parker Could Be Haunted By The Events of No Way Home

The events of No Way Home were the darkest moments of Peter Parker's MCU story. The Green Goblin killed Aunt May, and shortly after, Peter gave up his relationships with MJ and Ned to save the multiverse . Since no one knows who Peter is anymore, he lost many opportunities for his future, and is shown living alone in a small New York apartment. He also discovered the multiverse, and that he isn't the only Spider-Man, which would send any normal person into an existential crisis.

This all happened after Spider-Man was blipped for five years after Avengers: Infinity War , and then lost his mentor, Tony Stark, in Avengers: Endgame . Safe to say, Peter has been through the wringer for the last few years, and he finally has time to slow down and process everything that has happened to him. This could lead to many emotional complications, as he tries to come to terms with all the trauma and loss he's experienced. Spider-Man 4 could show Holland's Spider-Man experiencing PTSD, which would follow an important part of Tony's character arc.

Spider-Man's Journey Would Mirror Tony Stark's PTSD In Iron Man 3

In Iron Man 3 , Tony experiences PTSD after the events of The Avengers , where he fought aliens and barely escaped the closing wormhole. He has anxiety attacks, and he can't sleep due to constant nightmares. These experiences cause him to hyperfocus on protecting Pepper and the world from imminent threats. It was an important step in his journey, as Tony normally has a charismatic, confident persona, and his anxiety showed a different side to the character.

It would be a logical step for Spider-Man 4 to show Peter struggling to cope with everything that has happened . The young hero needs to get back into the swing of things, not only in terms of school and his career, but also as the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. However, it could be hard for him to do that at first if he tries to ignore his past trauma. This story would likely also mean that Peter would handle more localized problems before returning to multiversal, intergalactic threats with the Avengers.

A "Street Level" Threat Could Be What Peter Parker Needs To Get His Mind Right

Kevin Feige has hinted that Spider-Man will be a more "street-level" hero moving forward. He will deal with smaller-scale threats in New York City, such as Kingpin's criminal organization or any other villain from his massive comic book catalog. It's unclear what conflict Spidey will encounter, but a smaller threat could be what Peter needs to get things in order. Spider-Man has always been about helping the little guy, and helping out a local community could remind Peter of why he took on the Spider-Man mantle in the first place.

Additionally, this kind of story sets Spider-Man up to encounter other street-level heroes, like Daredevil, who could help him through his emotional trouble. Matt Murdock is a hero who has taken a lot of hits, but he always gets back up and does what's right. He could be the right hero Spider-Man needs to talk to about finding the light in a tunnel of darkness. Spider-Man 4 may be a darker story than the other MCU Spider-Man films, but it could be necessary to see Peter at his lowest so he can climb to new heights.

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Spider-Man: Homecoming 4 is the first sequel to the MCU's Spider-Man trilogy starring Tom Holland as the titular wall-crawler. After wiping his identity for the public's memory in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker continues his crime-fighting adventures without the aid of Iron Man technology or the support of his former allies.

Filmmakers Behind Animated Features ‘Spellbound,’ ‘That Christmas,’ ‘The Imaginary,’ ‘Ultraman: Rising’ and ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Share Their ‘Great Creative Journey’

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The makers of five of this year’s buzzy animated features—“ Spellbound ,” “ That Christmas ,” “ The Imaginary ,” “ Ultraman: Rising ” and “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”–participated in the Variety FYC Animation Preview at last week’s Annecy Animation Festival , showcasing a range of stories and animation styles during a broad discussion about their movies, creative process and business. Observed “Ultraman: Rising” director Shannon Tindle, who also co-wrote its screenplay, “We’ve got CG, we’ve got hand-drawn mixed with CG, we’ve got stop-frame animation. It’s really cool to see that all these different forms [of animation] are alive.”

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The production takes some visual inspiration from Spain. Explained Jenson, “Rather than going for the Anglo look of castles and forests, we played with and pulled from old Spanish architecture, Moorish design and tile and color work, and then thrown in on top is my own personal inspiration, Mary Blair.” Blair is the late Disney legend who drew concept art for several Disney animated classics such as “Alice in Wonderland” and “Cinderella.”

Based on a trio of children’s books by Richard Curtis (“Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Love Actually”) “That Christmas” follows a series of entwined tales about family and friends set in a snowy seaside town during the holidays. It marks Curtis’ foray into animation, serving as the film’s writer and executive producer, and the feature directorial debut of animation vet Simon Otto (“How to Train Your Dragon” trilogy).

He also had the books’ illustrations as source material. “They were really quite innocent and sensitive in the way they were executed,” Otto said, adding that the filmmakers also “needed something that was really going to give us a chance to perform the comedy and the type of performances that we were looking for … So we fleshed something out much more three-dimensional, but we wanted to keep that sensitivity in the design, the simplicity of that.”

Also featured was Studio Ponoc’s “The Imaginary”, an anime movie coming to Netflix with a story seen through the eyes of Rudger, an imaginary friend of a young girl named Amanda. During the panel, two-time Academy Award nominee and Studio Ponoc founder Yoshiaki Nishimura, the film’s producer who also wrote the screenplay based on the novel of the same name, discussed adapting the book for the screen. “I really was taken by the story, but I could tell that it was going to be very challenging to make it into a film,” he said, speaking with the assistance of his interpreter. “Rudger is an imagined character. However, he is not a monster; he’s not a creature. He’s actually an inner self of Amanda, a human character. Therefore he’s not completely removed from the human side. But I thought that depiction of the different perspective would be very interesting, that’s my first point.”

“The second point is that because Rudger is not a human, he will be forgotten, as with all the other imaginary characters as well,” he continued. “Once that human who imagined the characters in the first place starts to forget about the imagination itself, they would disappear. But we as humans are very fragile beings as well.”

“Ultraman: Rising” is based on the Japanese Ultraman franchise, first introduced in 1966, which follows superheroes that defend against kaiju. But Tiddle (“Lost Ollie”) took a unique approach in his movie, which was animated by Industrial Light & Magic and now streaming on Netflix. “I thought it would be interesting to have a character who didn’t want to be Ultraman, whose dad had been Ultraman and there had been a rift between them, and he was kind of out of obligation, forced to be Ultraman. Then these kaiju, these monsters that they normally fight, might be the thing that unifies them.”

In the story, protagonist Ken Sato/Ultraman (Christopher Sean) reluctantly adopts a baby kaiju, bringing with it themes around family and parenting.

Tindle’s own daughter helped to shape the performance of the baby kaiju. “I have three photos that were taken within seconds of each other where she was mad at me, then she was laughing, and then she was crying and they all happened just like that,” he said. “We actually have a scene in the film where I just gave the animators those photos, and I said, I want you to make her this mercurial because that’s how kids are. They can change how they feel one second to the next.”

“Gnomes have been a part of Wallace and Gromit’s world for years,” four-time Oscar winner Park said, adding that it seemed “very natural” for Wallace to invent a smart gnome. “He becomes a kind of new favorite in the house and puts Gromit’s nose out badly.” As to the return of the cunning penguin, he adds, “With gnomes around the house, as good as they were, we were having trouble finding good motivation and incentive for them. And then it kind of was like a fabulous epiphany that dropped into our lap that this is just perfect for Feathers McGraw. And he just fitted into and solved a real story issue.”

The filmmakers also discussed character design, and how they made their characters so emotive.

Of making silent stars Gromit and Feathers McGraw so expressive, Crossingham revealed, “It’s about finding what is the absolute minimum. With Feathers especially, the power comes from his stillness. … Sometimes it’s about not moving the character and letting the camera do the work.”

“Spellbound” protagonist Ellian was given a “carefree, athletic build,” Jensen explained, adding, “She’s sharp, and she’s smart, and she’s overwhelmed. So the design also has a lot of innocence in it. Big, wonderful eyes–someone who’s maybe taking on more than they’re prepared to.”

Otto described the process as “the joy of finding that emotional truth in a character and understanding how they fit into a story, but then also finding the leave of caricature that makes it really entertaining and fun to watch.”

The group also talked about the storyboard process. “We’ve got to get it right. We can’t go back and really change shots after we’ve animated them, but I think the most valuable thing is it’s a great place to make your mistakes,” Crossingham explained. “You learn so much from a storyboard and you learn a lot about your story and where you need to take it visually. And it’s just a great creative journey.”

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The Hall of Famer played with the Giants in New York and San Francisco, finished with 660 home runs, made one of the best catches ever — and appeared on 'Bewitched.'

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Willie Mays, the incandescent center fielder for the New York and San Francisco Giants whose unmatched blend of speed and power made him a cultural icon and one of the finest players in the history of baseball, died Tuesday. He was 93.

“It is with great sadness that we announce that San Francisco Giants Legend and Hall of Famer Willie Mays passed away peacefully this afternoon at the age of 93,” the San Francisco Giants shared on its official X (formerly Twitter) account.

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“I’m not able to get to Birmingham this year but will follow the game back here in the Bay Area,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday. “My heart will be with all of you who are honoring the Negro League ballplayers, who should always be remembered, including all my teammates on the Black Barons. I wanted to thank Major League Baseball, the Giants, the Cardinals and all the fans who’ll be at Rickwood or watching the game. It’ll be a special day, and I hope the kids will enjoy it and be inspired by it.”

Inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on his first try in 1979, Mays finished his 22-year MLB career with 660 home runs, the third most (behind only Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth) at the time of his retirement. (He since has been passed by his godson, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Albert Pujols.) The Alabama native also collected 3,283 hits, good for 11th on the all-time list. (These stats were subject to an MLB decision to elevate Negro League baseball, where Mays got his start, to “major league” status.)

An aerodynamic 5-foot-11 and 180 pounds in his prime, Mays also led the National League in stolen bases four times and was acrobatic in the outfield. One of his plays, accomplished at the cavernous Polo Grounds in Manhattan during the 1954 World Series, ranks among the most jaw-dropping the game has ever seen.

“From coast to coast in New York and San Francisco, Willie inspired generations of players and fans as the game grew and truly earned its place as our National Pastime,” MLB commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr. wrote in a statement following his death. “And yet his incredible achievements and statistics do not begin to describe the awe that came with watching Willie Mays dominate the game in every way imaginable. We will never forget this true Giant on and off the field. On behalf of Major League Baseball, I extend my deepest condolences to Willie’s family, his friends across our game, Giants fans everywhere, and his countless admirers across the world.”

In 1999, ESPN placed him No. 8 on its list of the 100 greatest athletes of the 20th century, trailing only Michael Jordan, Ruth, Muhammad Ali , Jim Brown, Wayne Gretzky, Jesse Owens and Jim Thorpe.

“If somebody came up and hit .450, stole 100 bases and performed a miracle in the field every day, I’d still look you right in the eye and tell you that Willie was better,” Leo Durocher, his manager with the New York Giants, wrote in his 1975 book,  Nice Guys Finish Last . “He could do the five things you have to do to be a superstar: hit, hit with power, run, throw and field. And he had the other magic ingredient that turns a superstar into a super-superstar. Charisma.”

As far as real show business goes, Mays appeared with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on the  Colgate Comedy Hour  in 1954, on two episodes of The Donna Reed Show  in 1964 and on other comedies like Bewitched  — could warlock-like powers be the real source of his tremendous abilities? —  My Two Dads  and  Mr. Belvedere .

Wesley Snipes and Omar Epps, respectively, played a speedster by the name of Willie Mays Hayes in  Major League  (1989) and its 1994 sequel.

Mays also can be heard on the 1954 tune “Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song),” recorded by The Treniers ( Quincy Jones served as the musical director on the recording session), and he received shout-outs from John Fogerty on “Centerfield” and Chuck D. on “The Amazing Willie Mays.”

In the 2022 HBO documentary Say Hey, Willie Mays , directed by Nelson George, longtime Giants broadcaster Jon Miller said he didn’t think of Mays “as a mere ballplayer or even as a human being as I look back on it, but rather as a superhero.

“Willie Mays walks down the street and fathers say to their sons, ‘There goes Willie Mays, the greatest player to ever play this game.'”

The Boston Braves began scouting Mays when he was 15 and still a student at Fairfield Industrial High School. (Imagine that: Mays could have played in the same Braves outfield as Aaron.) At 16, he joined Birmingham, then was signed by the Giants in 1950 for $4,000 (the Barons got $10,000) and assigned to a minor-league club in Trenton, New Jersey.

In 1951, Mays was hitting .477 for the Triple-A Minneapolis Millers when he was called up to New York on May 25, 1951. A couple of weeks past his 20th birthday, he was the youngest black player to ever reach the majors. (Jackie Robinson had broken baseball’s color barrier just four years earlier.)

After starting his MLB career 0-for-12 and 1-for-26 — his lone hit was a home run off Warren Spahn of the Braves at the Polo Grounds — Mays went on to hit .274 with 20 home runs in 121 games and was named the NL’s Rookie of the Year.

That remarkable season also saw the Giants erase a 13 1/2-game deficit to tie Brooklyn at the end of the regular season, and Mays was on deck when Bobby Thomson homered off the Dodgers’ Ralph Branca in the bottom of the ninth inning in the last game of a three-game playoff series.

The blow (“The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!” howled play-by-play man Russ Hodges) sent Mays and his jubilant teammates into the World Series against the New York Yankees, though they would lose in six games.

In the eighth inning of Game 1 with the score tied, none out and two men on, Cleveland slugger Vic Wertz sent a towering drive 440 feet away from home plate. Mays, playing shallow, ran full speed to make an over-the-shoulder catch, then spun and fired the ball back to the infield. (And yes, he lost his cap.)

“There was no doubt I was going to catch the ball,” Mays insisted. He said the throw was the most impressive part of the play.

He carried the Giants to the World Series again in 1962, but they lost in seven games to the Yankees.

At age 41, Mays came back to New York to play for the Mets, a team created in 1962 in the wake of the Giants and Dodgers fleeing to the West Coast. Journeyman Jim Beauchamp gave up his No. 24 so Mays could keep the number that he made famous, and the legend helped New York make it to the World Series against the Oakland Athletics in 1973, his final season.

Mays, perhaps too old to play center field, slipped while trying to catch a fly ball in the sun in Game 2, and the Mets fell in seven games.

“By the time he retired,” Hirsch wrote, Mays “was an American icon whose athletic brilliance and stylistic bravado contributed to the assimilation of blacks during the turbulent civil rights era, a distinctive figure of ambition, sacrifice and triumph who became a lasting cultural touchstone for a nation in search of heroes.”

Mays had served as special assistant to the president of the San Francisco Giants since 1986. Oracle Park, home of the Giants, is located at 24 Willie Mays Plaza and features a larger-than-life statue of him in front of the main entrance.

He founded the Say Hey Foundation in 2000 to assist underprivileged youth. In addition to Bonds, survivors include his son, Michael.

“I never had a day when somebody would not come up to me and say, ‘I saw you make a play, I love you because of what you did for me,” Mays said in the HBO documentary. “It made me very very proud because not only did I play baseball, but the people enjoyed what I did.”

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Hints for today's Connections groups

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Yellow group hint: Clicker commands

Green group hint: Secrete or conceal

Blue group hint: Cocktail decorations

Purple group hint: 007 film words

Answers for today's Connections groups

Yellow group: Remote control buttons

Green group: Hide from view

Blue group: Drink garnishes

Purple group: First word in Bond movie titles

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The yellow words in today's connections.

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The green words in today's Connections

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The blue words in today's Connections

The theme is drink garnishes. The four answers are cherry, olive, sword and umbrella.

The purple words in today's Connections

The theme is the first word in Bond movie titles. The four answers are casino, diamonds, quantum and tomorrow.

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Playing is easy. Winning is hard. Look at the 16 words and mentally assign them to related groups of four. Click on the four words you think go together. The groups are coded by color, though you don't know what goes where until you see the answers. The yellow group is the easiest, then green, then blue, and purple is the toughest. Look at the words carefully and think about related terms. Sometimes the connection has to do with just a part of the word. Once, four words were grouped because each started with the name of a rock band, including "Rushmore" and "Journeyman."

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