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May 27, 2005
The loviest Yard: Burt vs. Ingmar
Ah, everybody's a critic. Syracuse Post-Standard sports columnist Bud Poliquin defends an unlikely auteur against the arrows of a certain 69-year-old mouthy macho face-case: "In the current edition of Esquire magazine, Burt Reynolds is quoted as saying, "I'd rather be shot in the leg than watch an Ingmar Bergman picture," an opinion to which he is certainly entitled. But it does inspire one to imagine which body part Bergman would choose to mutilate—and how he'd do it—before ever agreeing to endure [the remake of] The Longest Yard. My guess, and it's just that, is that the old Swede might prefer to pour some burning charcoal into his skivvies and then take a seat upon a rusty spike."
Posted by at May 27, 2005 12:49 AM
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