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March 1, 2012   Moneyball, Descendants, and Hack Adapters  The
Oscars are over, and I'm content with the outcome: Good movies
and good performances were acclaimed, and if some that I thought
were better were left with nomination alone, and others I
admired were not nominated at all, what of that?  Two best-
picture-nominated films that I saw are still worth seeing, even
if they didn't win.  I was told again and again when it first
came out that I needed to see Moneyball. But I don't care about
baseball.  Even the two most recent "great movies" about
baseball -- The Natural and Field of Dreams -- I resisted for a
long time.  When I eventually saw them, I understood the appeal,
and I enjoyed them. But they remained outside my realm of
concern, in the way that circus stories remain forever alien to
me.  Because I don't like the c