Once again, the near peerless Mike Reilly was flattened like a pancake by an opposing squad's pass rush. Reilly may be, as many sportswriters have noted, tough as a two-dollar steak, but his expression, as he pulled himself out of another pileup, clearly showed frustration. He must have been wondering if his offensive line, supposedly there to protect him, was in fact receiving signals from a foreign power.
In even less upbeat sports news, Jim Bouton has been sent to the dugout of eternity. Bouton, author of the controversial but highly regarded "Ball Four," was eighty years old. With luck, you might be able to catch a screening of Robert Altman's film of Raymond Chandler's "The Long Goodbye," in which Bouton, a buddy of star Elliott Gould, played the key role of the charming and mysterious Terry Lennox.
Finally, we said farewell this week to Rip Torn."Rip" wasn't his straight name, but wouldn't someone christened Elmore Rual prefer Rip? Not surprisingly, several fellow actors tweeted "R.I.P. Rip." What was surprising was that in the many accounts of his career, none mentioned what may have been his best film: "Payday," directed by Daryl Duke, in which he played a brilliant and destructive country singer in the style of Hank Williams.
Somewhere, perhaps, all these large personalities will get together. Except for Reilly, who, we hope, will get a tougher O line and play for many a season more.
--Slap Maxwell.
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