P&G Thanks the Moms Who Raised the Kids Who Are Going to Sochi
Posted on January 7, 2014 at 10:41 pm
Olympic Movie Quiz: Answers
Posted on August 1, 2012 at 8:00 am
1. A warm-weather country competed in a cold-weather sport in which fact-based Disney film?
Cool Runnings
2. Which Oscar-winning movie was the story of two Olympic runners?
3. There are two different movies about which real-life Olympic champion runner?
Prefontaine
4. Which Olympic decathlete played himself in a movie based on his life?
Bob Mathias and his wife played themselves in “The Bob Mathias Story.”
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An Olympics Moment: Jesse Owens 1936
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 3:27 pm
As we prepare for the memorable moments of the 2012 Olympics, let’s take another look at this one, when a black American competed in Hitler’s Berlin and, as the world watched, he put the lie to Hitler’s claims about Aryan superiority. He won four gold medals. He then came home to an America still 20 years away from meaningful progress on civil rights. His life was not easy. He had to take the freight elevator to the reception honoring him. He was not invited to the White House to celebrate his achievements.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1XclGwJY8sI was privileged to meet the great Jesse Owens many years ago in Chicago. I will always remember his graciousness and how thrilling it was to shake hands with a legend.
For the London Olympics: A Movie Quiz
Posted on July 21, 2012 at 3:54 pm
The Olympics have inspired a lot of great (and not-so-great) movies, both fact-based and fictional. Which ones can you identify?
1. A warm-weather country competed in a cold-weather sport in which fact-based Disney film?
2. Which Oscar-winning movie was the story of two Olympic runners?
3. There are two different movies about which real-life Olympic champion runner?
4. Which Olympic decathlete played himself in a movie based on his life?
5. Athletes from rival countries fall in love in this movie that is fiction in more ways than one — it has America competing in an Olympics that in real life the US boycotted.
6. One of the wildest Olympics movies ever made has a team from an almost-bankrupt country where all the citizens have super-athletic ability. Which classic comedian starred?
7. Animals compete in the Olympics in which animated feature?
8. Who stars in a movie about a gold medalist who defects who has to fight for his life when his former coach comes after him?
9. Which real-life Olympic star appeared in one of the biggest musical movie flops of all time and now appears in reality television?
10. Which movie is the tragic story of one of America’s greatest Olympic athletes being stripped of his medals?
11. Which Olympic medalist appeared in a movie about an athlete starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy?
12. Which movie about the Olympics featured Cary Grant?
Bonus question: Which Olympic and world champion became one of the highest paid stars in Hollywood?
Smile of the Week: A Tribute to Moms for Olympics 2012
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:08 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NScs_qX2Okk
Related Tags:Many thanks to my brother-in-law, Rob, a great dad, for sharing this tribute to moms.