Unforgiven

Maryland newcomer Ricky Frazier continued his impressive riding yesterday, winning aboard odds-on favorite The Unforgiven in the $50,000 Alma North Handicap at Timonium.Frazier, a fixture at Delaware Park the past few years, is poised to take over for Edgar Prado as the No. 1 rider for trainers Dale Capuano and Hamilton Smith. Capuano, trainer of seven-time winner The Unforgiven, was impressed with yesterday's score, even though it came in a four-horse race with limited competition.Frazier showed poise while waiting patiently behind pace-setting Silent Valay.

I'm sure everyone in WWE is breathing a sigh of relief after a magnetic resonance imaging exam revealed that Shawn Michaels' triceps injury is not as serious as first believed. Michaels suffered a small tear of his left triceps and is medically cleared for his match against Chris Jericho at the Unforgiven pay-per-view Sunday. Michaels had said that he was doing the match regardless of the severity of the injury. Had the triceps been fully torn, Michaels was looking at surgery and missing four to six months.

When head coach Brian Billick of the Baltimore Ravens pondered which movie to introduce at the Maryland Film Festival, one picture jumped to mind: Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven," which won the best picture Oscar for 1992 and earned Eastwood the award for best director. "People around here know that I occasionally use film clips to communicate with my team," Billick said by phone as he waited for his turn to pick in the NFL draft two weeks ago. "I've used 'Unforgiven' on several occasions.

If you're of the opinion there's too much "sports entertainment" on wrestling shows these days and not enough wrestling, I hope you caught Smackdown on Friday night. There was an Undertaker-Vickie Guerrero angle sprinkled throughout the show, but the main focus was on the action in the ring. With a quintet in the Championship Scramble at the Unforgiven pay-per-view next Sunday, there is no better way to sell that match than to showcase the wrestling skills of the participants. (For more, go to baltimoresun.

* Picture: "The Crying Game," "A Few Good Men," "Howard End," "Scent of a Woman," "Unforgiven."* Actor: Robert Downey Jr., "Chaplin"; Clint Eastwood, "Unforgiven"; Al Pacino, "Scent of a Woman"; Stephen Rea, "The Crying Game"; Denzel Washington, "Malcolm X."* Actress: Catherine Deneuve, "Indochine"; Mary McDonnell, "Passion Fish"; Michelle Pfeiffer, "Love Field"; Susan Sarandon, "Lorenzo's Oil"; Emma Thompson, "Howards End."* Supporting actor: Jaye Davidson, "Crying Game"; Gene Hackman, "Unforgiven"; Jack Nicholson, "A Few Good Men"; Al Pacino, "Glengarry Glen Ross"; David Paymer, "Mr. Saturday Night."

If you're of the opinion there's too much "sports entertainment" on wrestling shows these days and not enough wrestling, I hope you caught Smackdown on Friday night. There was an Undertaker-Vickie Guerrero angle sprinkled throughout the show, but the main focus was on the action in the ring. With a quintet in the Championship Scramble at the Unforgiven pay-per-view next Sunday, there is no better way to sell that match than to showcase the wrestling skills of the participants. (For more, go to baltimoresun.

I'm sure everyone in WWE is breathing a sigh of relief after a magnetic resonance imaging exam revealed that Shawn Michaels' triceps injury is not as serious as first believed. Michaels suffered a small tear of his left triceps and is medically cleared for his match against Chris Jericho at the Unforgiven pay-per-view Sunday. Michaels had said that he was doing the match regardless of the severity of the injury. Had the triceps been fully torn, Michaels was looking at surgery and missing four to six months.

It's hard to say whether the four Oscars awarded to Clint Eastwood's revisionist Western "Unforgiven" owed more to the film's artistic merit or to Hollywood's guilty conscience over having neglected the craggy-faced actor for so long. Either way, the recognition was richly deserved.Mr. Eastwood made his name in the 1960s playing remorseless desperados in a string of movies that included Italian-made spaghetti Westerns like "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly." There followed a series of detective movies in which he played the crime-busting renegade "Dirty Harry," who was notable primarily for his laconic attitude toward killing -- "Go ahead: Make my day."

Boston.--There were more than a few inauspicious moments in the designated year-of-the-woman Oscars. The opening tribute to Hollywood's women began, after all, with a chorus of ''Some Day My Prince Will Come.''Billy Crystal then remarked on a dismal lack of decent women's roles, adding his equally dismal assessment. ''Some of the most-talked-about women's parts are Sharon Stone's in 'Basic Instinct.' ''The Academy gave the award for Best Actress to Emma Thompson for her portrait of a strong woman of her time.

LOS ANGELES -- After winning two Academy Awards for producing and directing the western "Unforgiven," Clint Eastwood admitted that there were certain ties between his career as an action filmmaker and his movie character, William Munny, a retired gunslinger who tries to turn his back on a life of violence."

Dr. Fred Berlin With the arrests of two men with records of sex offenses in the recent killing of two young girls in Florida, legislators in that state are taking action. A bill that would give anyone convicted of molesting a child younger than 12 a minimum 25-year sentence and a lifetime of wearing a global positioning system tracking device is moving quickly toward law. To some, such sweeping legislative action should not be taken in the heated aftermath of the killings. "I don't know if you want to be having these conversations in the context of the horrible crimes that occurred in Florida," says Dr. Fred Berlin, associate professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who founded the Sexual Disorder Clinic there.

When head coach Brian Billick of the Baltimore Ravens pondered which movie to introduce at the Maryland Film Festival, one picture jumped to mind: Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven," which won the best picture Oscar for 1992 and earned Eastwood the award for best director. "People around here know that I occasionally use film clips to communicate with my team," Billick said by phone as he waited for his turn to pick in the NFL draft two weeks ago. "I've used 'Unforgiven' on several occasions.

Maryland newcomer Ricky Frazier continued his impressive riding yesterday, winning aboard odds-on favorite The Unforgiven in the $50,000 Alma North Handicap at Timonium.Frazier, a fixture at Delaware Park the past few years, is poised to take over for Edgar Prado as the No. 1 rider for trainers Dale Capuano and Hamilton Smith. Capuano, trainer of seven-time winner The Unforgiven, was impressed with yesterday's score, even though it came in a four-horse race with limited competition.Frazier showed poise while waiting patiently behind pace-setting Silent Valay.

WASHINGTON -- ''The Unforgiven'' by Metallica was the song 18-year-old Melissa Drexler reportedly asked the disc jockey at her New Jersey prom to play when she returned to the dance floor. She had just tossed her 6-pound-6-ounce baby boy into a trash bin next to the bloodstained stall in the restroom where she had given birth.Metallica's song begins, ''New blood joins the earth and quickly he's subdued.'' It is just another song of adolescent self-pity, the not altogether intelligible gist of which is the usual of that genre: Society -- the unforgiven -- is oppressive, subduing the new blood of youth.

Two of the biggest movies of 1992 go head to head tonight, making their respective cable premieres. Showtime has "A Few Good Men" with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, and HBO has a few good men of its own: Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman in "Unforgiven."* "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (6-7 p.m., WBFF, Channel 45) -- Wil Wheaton, who played Wesley when this series first began, returns in a plot line that has Work (Michael Dorn) inexplicably married to one of the other Enterprise crew members.

Boston.--There were more than a few inauspicious moments in the designated year-of-the-woman Oscars. The opening tribute to Hollywood's women began, after all, with a chorus of ''Some Day My Prince Will Come.''Billy Crystal then remarked on a dismal lack of decent women's roles, adding his equally dismal assessment. ''Some of the most-talked-about women's parts are Sharon Stone's in 'Basic Instinct.' ''The Academy gave the award for Best Actress to Emma Thompson for her portrait of a strong woman of her time.

NEW YORK -- In Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven," due in theaters Friday, Gene Hackman has the plum role of Little Bill Daggett, a frontier lawman willing to kill to keep his community free of killers.Mr. Hackman could not care less about the advance scuttlebutt -- a virtual consensus among American film critics -- that his portrayal is among the year's more appealing Oscar bait."I doubt I'll even watch the thing," the celebrated actor shrugged during a visit heralding the opening of "Unforgiven."

LOS ANGELES -- After winning two Academy Awards for producing and directing the western "Unforgiven," Clint Eastwood admitted that there were certain ties between his career as an action filmmaker and his movie character, William Munny, a retired gunslinger who tries to turn his back on a life of violence."

It's hard to say whether the four Oscars awarded to Clint Eastwood's revisionist Western "Unforgiven" owed more to the film's artistic merit or to Hollywood's guilty conscience over having neglected the craggy-faced actor for so long. Either way, the recognition was richly deserved.Mr. Eastwood made his name in the 1960s playing remorseless desperados in a string of movies that included Italian-made spaghetti Westerns like "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly." There followed a series of detective movies in which he played the crime-busting renegade "Dirty Harry," who was notable primarily for his laconic attitude toward killing -- "Go ahead: Make my day."