The liberals had a party at the Fine Arts Theatre the other night, and almost all of them were there.
“What do you get when you cross a chicken and a hawk?” someone in the balcony asked.
“We got a double-play combination,” he said.
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The movie, Terkel explained, tells the story of the 1919 Chicago White Sox (or Black Sox), a team so underpaid and unappreciated by Charles Comiskey, the cheap and greedy bastard who owned it, that they felt compelled to “fix” the World Series.
One by one they stood and waved.
The crowd laughed, and as the credits rolled, they cheered the names Cusack, Terkel, and Sayles. They hissed when Comiskey denied pitcher Eddie Cicotte the raise he deserved. They laughed at Terkel’s lines.
“No,” said Einhorn, “we couldn’t.” His voice was soft; he looked down.
