Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: super70s Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: TCM is doing an evening of made-for-tv movies Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:53:05 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <20240323122731.00003fe6@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5fa0048dd738d8202810db1190f2e339"; logging-data="4090174"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/B2AlAoidljp1jsmy9Xo4asvIGCLIXNDw=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:7jApM0kydfW20TzgtZI+wAyxY0g= Bytes: 2043 On 2024-03-23 17:02:50 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said: > James Caan had played high school and some college football before studying > theater. I believe he also played a little football in the fine Francis Ford Coppola-directed The Rain People. > The practice sessions didn't look tough enough, so I suspect some of the > "players" were actors and not football players, but there were genuine > Chicago Bears as extras in the movie. > > I read a little about what Piccolo went through with the cancer. It was > far more gruesome than what was shown on television. It was in his lung > but it wasn't lung cancer. The first surgery was treating cancers that > had already metasticized throughout his body. He had a series of major > surgeries and, essentially, didn't benefit from any of them. > > The movie wasn't terribly clear on the passage of time but a couple of > months had passed between several of the hospital scenes. I have the remake of this they did in 2001, I haven't watched it since 2019 so I can't remember if it was any more faithful than the TV version.