Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: TCM is doing an evening of made-for-tv movies Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 20:40:45 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: <20240323122731.00003fe6@example.com> <20240323163228.0000530f@example.com> Injection-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 20:40:45 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a2c88dff4d7d1a1f7b00f1e08727cdda"; logging-data="4055373"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+mfGi/YojjxsMdVNtle89emCpBBWX/dHw=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:2w3rEMrBYbvh0CLphlxtvH1A/Uw= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3682 Rhino wrote: >On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:02:50 -0000 (UTC) >"Adam H. Kerman" wrote: > >> Rhino wrote: >> >On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:00:28 -0000 (UTC) Adam H. Kerman >> >: >> >> >>Brian's Song >> >>Vinnie in the Plastic Bubble >> >>Duel >> >>The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman >> >> >I've never seen the first two but the latter two were both excellent >> >films, well worth seeing again. I might even watch Brian's song since >> >I've heard it is excellent. I have no interest in seeing Travolta in >> >the plastic bubble though. >> >> That was the year he became a breakout star on Welcome Back, Kotter, >> and the same year he did Carrie. I don't know which movie was produced >> first. I watched the end of it on TCM. I'd never seen it all the way >> through. From what I've read, it's heavily fictionalized and took lots >> of liberties with the real story. The real person criticized the >> "astronaut suit" he used toward the end because there's no way to >> clean the outside of the suit so it didn't introduce pathogens deadly >> enough to him, carried into the bubble room where he had to take it >> off. He'd have needed some sort of sterile robing/disrobing room >> before he entered the bubble. >> >> They made Billy Dee Williams look a lot like Gale Sayers. James Caan >> had played high school and some college football before studying >> theater. >> >> 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. >> >> For a football player, Piccolo really was a little guy, even before >> the weight loss due to the cancer. > >Was he a quarterback then? I gather most quarterbacks are small but I >know absolutely nothing about Piccolo and Sayers. He was a fullback and halfback and had backed up Gale Sayers when he had a serious knee injury. These guys just ran like crazy away from the guys on the defense that were twice their size and trying to kill them.