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“Mr. Scorsese”: The revered filmmaker loves to talk about movies but tends to be circumspect about his personal life, which is why Rebecca Miller’s five-part documentary about Martin Scorsese is so revelatory.

For Afrikaners, descendants of 17th Century European settlers, Kruger is revered as a hero who led the resistance against British colonialism.

My dad was a sports star and the high school athletic director in my hometown, a real “Friday Night Lights” kind of place where football was king and athletes were revered.

He is globally revered for putting a stop to the frenzy of bloodletting 31 years ago, in which extremist members of the Hutu ethnic group murdered some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

They are both the most revered and the most maligned cooks in our culture.