Steve Johnson

In a society in which major league sporting events have replaced Sunday worship as the religion of choice, North Dallas Forty appears like a desecration at the altar. In this film, directed by Ted Kotcheff (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), the National Football League is revealed to be more about the money than the game. Nick Nolte is North Dallas Bulls pass-catcher Phillip Elliott, whose cynicism and independent spirit is looked upon as troublesome by team coaches Johnson (Charles Durning) and Strothers (G.D. Spradlin) and team owner Conrad Hunter (Steve Forrest). Elliot, at the end of his career and wise to the way players are bought and sold like cattle, goes through the games pumped up on painkillers conveniently provided by the management. His teammates include savvy quarterback Maxwell (Mac Davis) and lunk-headed defensive lineman Jo Bob Priddy (Bo Svenson), who deal with the impersonality and back-biting of the game through off-field diversions. When the Bulls management benches Elliot after manipulating him to help train a fellow teammate, Elliot has to decide whether there is more to life than the game that he loves.

In the world of covert intelligence, only one man is Smart. Steve Carell is in CONTROL as Maxwell Smart, the novice agent often out of his depths but never out of options in this action comedy pitting him against the nuclear scheme of the evil spy group KAOS. Anne Hathaway partners with Max as ever-capable Agent 99. And director Peter Segal (The Longest Yard) guides his stars (including Dwayne Johnson and Alan Arkin) in an alternately daffy and dangerous realm of molar radios, Max s amazing multi-function pocketknife and more gizmos from lab nerds Bruce (Masi Oka) and Lloyd (Nate Torrence). Laughs, excitement, exploding dental floss - Get Smart is armed and hilarious.

Humphrey Bogart stars as Lt. Commander Philip Francis Queeg, a Navy veteran assigned command of the U.S.S. Caine. Queeg's no-nonsense demeanor quickly rankles his men and, when they sense that he may be unstable, Lt. Tom Keefer (Fred MacMurray) begins planting seeds of suspicion regarding the new captain's sanity. Once it's clear that Queeg is incapable of running the ship, First Officer Lt. Steve Maryk (Van Johnson) assumes command - a decision that forces him and another Caine officer to face trial for mutiny. Initially sympathizing with Maryk's predicament, Lt. Barney Greenwald (Jose Ferrer) agrees to defend him during the court martial. But after Keefer denies having any role in the mutiny, a reluctant Greenwald must then relentlessly go after Queeg on the witness stand.

Steve Byrnes talks to 5-time Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson about his 3rd All-Star win this past Saturday.