won in 1959, 1963, and 1965. Scully was there for it all. His call of the ninth inning of Koufax's only perfect game is held up as arguably the single greatest bit of sports broadcasting in the history of the medium.

Scully, a transplant, ingratiated himself with Angelenos. Players, managers, and owners have come and gone, but through it all, he's been there. A 1964 Sports Illustrated profile states that his "voice is better known to most Los Angelenos than their next-door neighbor's is," that "millions of southern Californians have Vin Scully with their supper."

He is a titan, a walking civic landmark on par with the Hollywood Sign and LA's scattered, smoggy skyline. As apple pie is to America, Scully is to Los Angeles. He put it best himself,earlier films “The Fireman’s Ball” and “Loves of a Blonde” were nominated for best foreign language film.

Born Feb. 18, 1932, outside Prague, Forman was the youngest of three brothers. His father, a Jewish army reservist from World War I and university teacher, was arrested for disseminating banned books to his students. His Protestant mother was arrested after shopping at a local grocery where anti-Nazi propaganda was found. Both died in concentration camps, making Forman an orphan at age 10.


After World War II, as Czechoslovakia fell under Soviet control, Forman drifted from the homes of relatives to boarding school and then to the Prague Film Academy.

There, he helped establish the Czech New Wave, a group of filmmakers chronicling the grim realities of life behind the Iron Curtain. They favored