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Subject: Re: TCM is doing an evening of made-for-tv movies
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:32:28 -0400
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:02:50 -0000 (UTC)
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> >On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:00:28 -0000 (UTC) Adam H. Kerman
> ><ahk@chinet.com>:  
> 
> >>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 Gayle 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.

-- 
Rhino