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Talkback || BY S.T. VanAirsdale || 05 04 2012 10:35 AM

Let's Name the New Slap Shot Hometown Hockey Team

As if the stakes weren't high enough already among hockey fans enjoying the ongoing and roundly extraordinary Stanley Cup Playoffs, an institution born from arguably the greatest sports film ever made now requires their immediate attention: The good people of Johnstown, Penn. — which served as the inspiration and location for the 1977 classic Slap Shot — have a new hockey team. What they don't have is a name. Let's help them out.
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My Favorite Scene || BY Jen Yamato || 04 20 2012 3:00 PM

My Favorite Scene: John Cusack Picks a Classic Paul Newman Moment From The Verdict

My Favorite Scene: John Cusack - The Verdict (Getty Images)

Having had the chance to work with one of his heroes, Paul Newman (in 1989’s Fat Man and Little Boy), John Cusack turned to a Newman classic for a round of Movieline’s My Favorite Scene. “There’s a scene of Paul Newman in The Verdict that I would use as the best example of economy and what a close-up is supposed to mean,” Cusack explained during our chat for The Raven. “It’s the example where the film does what no other art form can do – a book can’t do it, and theater can’t do it, it’s only for film, and it’s the best example of it.” Pay attention, kids – Professor Cusack’s Film Language 101 is in session.
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