For Sam Chaiton, author of the memoir 'We Used To Dream of Freedom,' compassion for the underdog has been a guiding theme.
As it turns out, even the greats occasionally get down on themselves. For the incomparable Denzel Washington, it happened when when he lost the Academy Award for best actor to Kevin Spacey in 2000.
Perhaps as art tried to imitate the life of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the best depiction may have come from Bob Dylan's 1975 song "Hurricane:" The champion of the world. By then Carter had ...