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*With “42” looking down on all competition at the box office this week, its breakout star Chadwick Boseman is looking forward to joining another sports-themed pic…this time, taking place on the gridiron. The actor is reportedly in talks for “Draft Day,” an NFL-set project from director Ivan Reitman. Kevin Costner stars as the general manager [...]
*Breakout star Chadwick Boseman – who portrays Jackie Robinson in the film “42” says there were a few things he learned and you might not have known about the first African American in the Major League. “Jackie Robinson was a legend … a Pasadena sports legend and a national legend before this moment, and I [...]
*There are some things in our society that matter and need not be explained. We live in a society where we have forgotten about the things that matter. We find ourselves explaining things that shouldn’t have to be explained and paying attention to things that we should give absolutely no attention. Nonsense now makes the [...]
*While Jackie Robinson used a baseball glove and bat to battle racial injustice on the diamond, black sportswriters like Wendell Smith of the Pittsburgh Courier, fought the good fight with the power of the press. Smith was paid by the Courier and Brooklyn Dodgers’ boss Branch Rickey to accompany Robinson as he traveled with Brooklyn’s [...]
*The story of Jackie Robinson (#42) is one that every grammar school child in America has likely heard of. Those same children are just as likely to have forgotten about this triumph over adversity and bigotry by the time they become adults, acknowledging Robinson only from an athletic perspective. Not only was Robinson the first [...]
Brian Helgeland’s Warner Bros. presentation of 42 is an epic accounting of a baseball legend, arrives in theaters April 12, 2013 *Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland wrote and directed the Warner Bros. Pictures presentation of 42: The True Story of an American Legend, a bio-film based on the life of the legendary Major League baseball [...]
*For five hours on August 8, 1944, the young second lieutenant – Jackie Robinson, the future # 42 of the Brooklyn Dodgers - stood nervously before an all-white nine judge military jury panel at Camp (now Fort) Hood, Texas. He faced multiple charges in his court martial proceedings. His only real offense was that he had [...]
*The film “42” dramatizes the brutal racist harassment that Jackie Robinson endured as the first black player in Major League Baseball. Robinson triumphed over the hate hurled at him by white spectators, sports writers, opposing players and teammates by concentrating on his game and resisting the natural inclination to retaliate. He suppressed his temper and [...]
*First lady Michelle Obama gave her word about “42,” a film based on Jackie Robinson’s life and career, highlighting the racial barriers the athlete and role model took on boldly. She said to the Associated Press, “How on Earth did (the Robinsons) live through that? How did they do it? How did they endure the [...]
*Harrison Ford never really cared much for baseball. The actor, born and raised in Chicago, says he only went to Wrigley Field once as a kid, and remembers way more details about the stadium than the actual game. “It was such a vivid, visual image in my mind, still, of that square of improbable grass [...]
*The upcoming Jackie Robinson biopic, “42,” is proving to be very influential. At the White House on Tuesday, the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, hosted 80 high school and college students from across the country for a screening of the film. That was followed by an interactive workshop with the cast and [...]
*Rightfully so, some black folk have been down right testy lately with the n-word in film. In the latest, critics brought up the supposedly excessive use of the word in the new Jackie Robinson biopic, “42.” Perhaps, however, there will be little to no uproar this time around. But Harrison Ford, who plays Brooklyn Dodgers team [...]
*The Jackie Robinson biopic “42,” about Major League Baseball’s first African American player, would not be opening in theaters next month if it weren’t for the blessing of his widow. And she had some concerns. Rachel Robinson, who owns the rights to her late husband’s story, questioned director Brian Helgeland’s vision of the biopic, which would span [...]
*A new independent film “The Kill Hole,” starring “Sons Of Anarchy‘s” Tory Kittles as an ex-Marine with a vendetta and “42‘s” Chadwick Boseman as the Iraq veteran tasked with bringing him down, has a number of parallels to ex-LAPD cop Christopher Dorner, whose vendetta against the LA Police Department led to the murders of four [...]
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