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Roger Zotti

    The Proper Pugilist
    The Ever-Changing B Movie and Other Imaginings
    Alfred Hitchcock's Mustache & Other Essays
    Friday Night World
    • 2022

      In 1979 Hitchcock was the recipient of the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. Before presenting the award to him, Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman, who starred in three Hitchcock films-Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), and Under Capricorn (1949)-called him "an admirable genius." From "Hitchcock and the Ladies" Atlas told her that "[I'm going to] teach you boxing . . . so that you can learn how to go into dark places and not get broken down. If you can learn that bit of the discipline that fighters learn, you can take that onto the stage with you." From "Teddy's Adventures in Trainer Land" The trade that sent Rogers to the Rangers foreshadowed many of the idiotic trades and front office and coaching changes the Whalers made during their NHL existence. From "Trading Mike Rogers"

      Alfred Hitchcock's Mustache & Other Essays
    • 2015

      The Proper Pugilist

      Essays on the Milling Art

      • 100 Seiten
      • 4 Lesestunden

      Long ago, when the teenage Roger Zotti was living in New Haven, he was knocked unconscious in the first round by a friend who knew how to box and punch. After he regained consciousness, it dawned on him that it's less painful writing about boxing. The Proper Pugilist, a compilation of essays about the sweet science, is a sure bet to inform and entertain the reader.

      The Proper Pugilist
    • 2014
    • 2012

      The flash fictions in The Ever-Changing B Movie are diverse glimpses of characters or situations. Most of them are full of loose ends and can't be neatly tied up at the end and satisfactorily explained. When it comes to the book's technique specifically, description the author agrees wholeheartedly with what Elmore Leonard once said, "I like a lot of talking in a book . . . I like some description but not too much of that."

      The Ever-Changing B Movie and Other Imaginings