Thank you to everyone who turned out for our sneak preview screening at IFFBoston!
We had a great crowd at the Brattle and were thrilled with the reception the film received. Afterward, we took the audience with us to the Russell House Tavern for Dewar's and discussion.
To everyone who showed up, thank you so much for your support. For everyone else, we look forward to sharing the movie with you soon!
George Plimpton caught a plane to Detroit – and readers went along with him and entered an emerging pro league, the NFL. The 36-year-old rookie out of Harvard failed to become the Detroit Lions third-string quarterback. But Plimpton did produce Paper Lion, a bestseller, which is always in any conversation about the greatest sports book of all-time.
If you follow the NFL, work for an NFL team, or happen to play in the League, Peter King’s writing is required reading. In the following interview King talks about his all-time top quarterbacks, what altered his original journalism plans and the NFL story that needs more attention.
In Open Net, George Plimpton's last act of participatory journalism, he joined “The Union,” a historic transcontinental hockey goaltending brotherhood. The 50-year-old laced up the skates, donned a Boston Bruins uniform and played goalie against the Philadelphia Flyers. He found himself ensnared in the rivalry between Don Cherry’s “Lunch Pail Gang” Bruins and “The Broad Street Bullies.”
Grantland’s Katie Baker took the unusual path of becoming a Goldman Sachs vice president en route to rising star status on the sports writing scene.
WARNING: If your golfing mind is fragile, reading George Plimpton’s The Bogey Man could further worsen your game. But if your handicap can handle it, the book relays universal golf experiences from a month on the PGA Tour.
