I once met Gene Hackman at a boxing match and spoke with him. Nice man. Did you ever meet him? Robert Freud Bastin, Petaluma Dear Robert Freud Bastin: I never really met Gene Hackman, but I was at a ...

The Final Reckoning,” field agent Ethan Hunt and the real-life Tom Cruise all-but merge into one person. It’s a film that looks back over two careers, Hunts’ and Cruise’s, and sums up both as amazing.