... who are miserable failures at home. There are people who live in million dollar mansions who can’t look at themselves in the mirror because of the way they accumulated their wealth. There was a movie many years ago, The Sweet Smell of Success with Burt Lancaster. Lancaster played J. J. Hunsecker, a powerful and disreputable New York gossip columnist. What he puts in his columns can make a career or break it, and Hunsecker is merciless in reporting other people’s misdeeds. At one point in the movie, J. J ...
... where Ray Kinsella is playing catch with his dad or where Shoeless Joe first appears. This is the scene in which Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, who gave up baseball and became a doctor, gets his only at bat among major league ballplayers. The elder Graham is played by Burt Lancaster. He's lamented to Ray that he only played one inning in the major leagues and never got to bat. He tells Ray wishes he could have one at bat, in which he winks at the pitcher and then hits the ball deep, stretching a double into ...
... being His disciple. - Commit your life to continuing His ministry of love. In the movie Field of Dreams, a touching parable is told about life and death and reconciliation and forgiveness. Kevin Costner, the main character is driven to find an old doctor played by Burt Lancaster. The doctor (many years before as a young man) had been a professional baseball player. He had made it to the major leagues,… but he had only gotten in the game for one play before his career ended. He didn’t even get a chance ...
... tribunal in which four Nazi judges are accused of crimes against humanity for their activities during the Hitler regime. The chief justice, Dan Haywood (played by Spencer Tracy), makes an effort to comprehend how defendant Ernst Janning (played by Burt Lancaster) could have passed sentences resulting in genocide, and, how the German people could have ignored the Holocaust. The way in which individuals collude with state crimes is a focus of the film. Literature: “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson. This ...
