It should go in the pantheon of greats for creating Brenda Chenowith (played by Rachel Griffiths) alone – the single most richly drawn, beautifully nuanced, bewitching, frustrating, fabulous female character in modern television.
Without all that humming, bustling, foul-mouthed, real-life humanity, it might just have been another sports movie – another Gridiron Gang, another Any Given Sunday – instead of a new admission to the Pantheon of Great Sports Movies – for which one needs more than mere sport.
Entering the Palestinian Authority school in the early days of the offensive, a group of Palsars found the classroom walls papered with posters of Palestinian suicide-bomber shahids, or "martyrs," a pantheon of heroes for the 5- and 6-year-olds to look up to.
Maybe the racing gods tired of the boasts from the brash and irrepressible Dutrow and decided that no matter how talented a colt Big Brown was, there was no room in the pantheon of greats for a trainer who acted more like Muhammad Ali than the stoic Hall of Fame trainer Ben Jones.
At a raucous ceremony at Harvard University yesterday, a select group from six countries and four continents was inducted into the scientific pantheon of ignominy for boldly tackling issues from the question of why shower curtains billow inward to the risk of loitering under coconut trees.
