Ali Movie Will Be Worth Watching
Stephen Frears has made many movies I love, including “My Beautiful Laundrette” and “The Queen.” So I will certainly watch “Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight,” when it plays this Saturday on HBO. It shows how the Supreme Court dealt with Ali’s 1971 appeal of his conviction for refusing induction after his local draft board rejected his application for conscientious objector classification based on his Muslim convictions. It was touch and go at first, but the Supremes reversed the conviction, finding that the government had failed to properly specify why Ali’s application had been denied.
