The Announcement--ESPN

I really liked the Ricky Williams one. Gave such an inside perspective to a really strange man.

 

Yep, very true indeed! So glad I was able to catch Freddie Mercury fronting Queen the last time they were on tour a couple years back.

 

The Two Escobars and Dupree were easily the best. There have been several other very, very good ones. This one fell flat for me. And I think it was definitely stated that the woman was Nelson George's sister. I doubt the young girl who is in her 20s now is real real real real real rich, either.

 

I didn't see the whole thing (switched over to The Walking Dead because I just couldn't wait anymore).

The early part of the AIDS epidemic were hard to watch. When they showed rednecks screaming at Ryan White, I cried. Same when they showed the early victims of AIDS, especially the one man who was on the verge of death and looked like a skeleton being helped to stand. And of course the little girl -- forget it. Empty box of tissues.


The scenes that got me with Magic were a little simpler. His decision to call people individually, the players being pulled out of practice, his brother taking time off work to deal with the comments.

 

I thought that having Magic narrate this made it work. If you had some booming announcer voice-over (I know Charlton Heston and John Facenda are dead, but those are the people who come to mind), some of the authenticity would be lost.

 

I thought for sure this thread was about Erin Andrews' leaving ESPN:

http://tweetscenter.com/erin-andrews-leaving-espn/11572/

 

My favorite is the one with Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic. So emotional, and well done.

 

What about musicians, as well?

What, a handful that contracted AIDs ... Freddie Mercury is the only one I can recall off the top of my head.

 

Arthur Ashe

 

Eazy E
Liberace
Robin Crosby (RATT guitarist)
Tom Fogerty from CCR
Ricky Wilson from the B-52s
David Cole from C+C Music Factory

 

Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
Andy Bell (Erasure)
Gil-Scott Herron

 

Had one of my best friends diagnosed the day of the Announcement. He died in less than 2 years after that day. We once talked about it and he said the same thing.