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.
It’s the first time the final is not played. 1985 — Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the former middleweight boxer convicted twice of a triple murder in 1966 and the hero of a Bob Dylan song, is released ...