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New York Post
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Leon Rose has earned trust to get Knicks over the hump — here's how he can do it
Toward the end of 'All the President's Men,' Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee is pondering whether or not to run a story, and he stands opposite Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman's Woodward and Bernstein as he expresses his biggest concern. 'I can't do the reporting for my reporters, which means I have to trust them,' Robards/Bradlee says. 'And I hate trusting anybody.' Sports fans forever face the same conundrum. So many bosses hop in and out of those jobs that they can become a blur of big promises and limited returns. You put too much trust in a general manager, you wind up watching Pete Crow-Armstrong in Chicago. Or, worse, you watch Eddy Curry in New York. But when a GM proves trustworthy …
Times
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Burden of Dreams (1982) review — the engrossing Fitzcarraldo backstory
The opening titles of Les Blank's behind-the-scenes documentary boast that it's 'starring' the director Werner Herzog. A documentary? Starring? And yet that's exactly what you get in this gruelling and engrossing Fitzcarraldo backstory. The production is a litany of disasters. Jason Robards, the lead actor, exits with dysentery, followed by his co-star Mick Jagger. The Robards replacement Klaus Kinski is furious with the remote Peruvian location, hissing, 'You can't escape this f***ing stinking camp!' Bulldozers break down. Ships don't work. City sex workers are bizarrely bussed in for the male crew to neutralise the possibility of intimate, and thus culturally sensitive, relations with local indigenous women. Throughout all this there's Herzog, captain of the ship (he remains on the film's steamship when it runs aground),
