{"id":3551,"date":"2012-08-25T04:17:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T11:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/the-day-woody-boyd-died\/"},"modified":"2012-08-23T19:24:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T02:24:51","slug":"the-day-woody-boyd-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/25\/the-day-woody-boyd-died\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day Woody Boyd Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Grantland<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

You Either Smoke or You Get Smoked<\/h1>\n

An oral history of\u00a0White Men Can’t Jump<\/em><\/p>\n


\nCOURTESY OF 20TH CENTURY FOX<\/em><\/p>\n

By Thomas Golianopoulos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

White Men Can’t Jump<\/em>\u00a0begins with a 19-minute sequence that features a version of\u00a0“Just a Closer Walk With Thee”<\/a>\u00a0by the Venice Beach Boys, more rat-a-tat “yo momma” jokes than a season’s worth of BET’s ComicView and, of course, some pickup basketball. Director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham<\/em>,\u00a0Tin Cup<\/em>) wanted to establish that his actors \u2014 a ragtag cast that included a burgeoning movie star, a fifth-lead sitcom actor, former NBA players, Division-I washouts, weekend warriors, and Kadeem Hardison in a goofy hat \u2014 really had game. So when the film’s stars, Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, step to the top of the key for a best-of-five shooting contest, Shelton doesn’t cut away to the basket. No camera tricks, no editing, no ringers. There was just one problem: His actors couldn’t stop chucking up bricks.<\/p>\n

“We were looking at our watches like, ‘When are these guys gonna make one?'” says actor Ernest Harden Jr., who looked on during the six-hour shoot. One day on set, Harden uttered what became the film’s mantra: That word action<\/em> is a motherfucker. “You could be prepared,” Harden says. “And then you hear ‘action’ and everything goes wrong.”<\/p>\n

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