Curse of the Black Sox discussion found its way to the official World Series film DVD. For example, White Sox center fielder Aaron Rowand, in an interview for the DVD, compared the 2004 Red Sox with the 2005 White Sox: "If they could break their 'curse', so could we." In one of those ways that patterns appear to emerge in sporting events, the White Sox World Series win in 2005, along with the Boston Red Sox win in 2004, symmetrically bookended the two teams' previous World Series winners and the long gaps between, with the Red Sox and White Sox last Series wins having come
The Curse of the Cat People "Cat People" (1942). James Agee, for instance, referred to the film's expression of "the poetry and danger of childhood". While "Variety" rated "The Curse of the Cat People" as "highly disappointing", "The New York Times'" Bosley Crowther called it "a rare departure from the ordinary run of horror films [which] emerges as an oddly touching study of the working of a sensitive child's mind". The film's reputation has grown since its initial release. Film historian William K. Everson found the same sense of beauty at work in "The Curse of the Cat People" and Jean Cocteau's "La Belle et la