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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: TCM is doing an evening of made-for-tv movies
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 20:40:45 -0000 (UTC)
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Rhino  <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>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 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.