{"id":7925,"date":"2016-11-08T20:22:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T03:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7925"},"modified":"2016-11-11T20:25:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T03:25:44","slug":"hackman-the-assman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/08\/hackman-the-assman\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackman The Assman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/11\/hoosiers-anniversary-gene-hackman-stories.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Vulture<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>On the 30th Anniversary of\u00a0<em>Hoosiers<\/em>, the Movie\u2019s Director Recalls What a Pain Gene Hackman Was<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a class=\"story-author\" href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/author\/David%20Marchese\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\" data-track=\"Byline: Author Archive\">David Marchese<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/vulture\/2016\/11\/02\/02-hoosiers-gene-hackman.w529.h352.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Gene Hackman in &#8220;Hoosiers&#8221;\u00a0Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The success and long afterlife of\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hoosi-Gene-Hackman\/dp\/B00165Y3TM\" data-track=\"Body Text Link: External\">Hoosiers<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>\u2014 released almost exactly 30 years ago and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/10\/whats-new-on-hulu-november-2016.html\" data-track=\"Body Text Link: Internal: vulture\">new on Hulu this month<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 may not be quite as improbable as the events depicted in the movie, but it\u2019s in the same long-shot realm as Hickory High\u2019s run to the Indiana state basketball title. You had a director, David Anspaugh, making his feature-film debut; you had a co-star, Dennis Hopper, who played the troubled assistant coach Shooter Flatch, still working his way back from a solid decade in the show-business wilderness; and you had a subject, basketball, that up to that point, didn\u2019t exactly have a sterling cinematic history. Oh, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/gene-hackman\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-track=\"Body Text Link: Internal: vulture\">Gene Hackman<\/a>, who starred as coach Norman Dale, drove Anspaugh to the brink of a nervous breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>Yet those problems resulted in beloved film, one that earned Academy Award nominations for Dennis Hopper\u2019s supporting role and composer Jerry Goldsmith\u2019s score. In 2001, the movie was selected by preservation by the National Film Registry and has been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afi.com\/10top10\/moviedetail.aspx?id=4&amp;thumb=7\" target=\"_blank\" data-track=\"Body Text Link: External\">honored by the American Film Institute<\/a>. As far as sports films go,\u00a0<i>Hoosiers<\/i>, despite criticism from the likes of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2012\/08\/spike-lee-films-ranked-from-best-to-worst.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-track=\"Body Text Link: Internal: vulture\">Spike Lee<\/a>, is in the pantheon.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the phone from Bloomington, Indiana, where he moved in 2014 to teach film at Indiana University, Anspaugh, who also directed the football classic\u00a0<i>Rudy<\/i>, talked about his movie&#8217;s legacy, butting heads with Hackman, an obsessive celebrity fan, race, and what\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2015\/08\/jack-nicholson-stole-david-spades-girlfriend.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-track=\"Body Text Link: Internal: vulture\">Jack Nicholson<\/a>\u00a0said would\u2019ve happened if he\u2019d been the star.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/11\/hoosiers-anniversary-gene-hackman-stories.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Vulture<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Vulture On the 30th Anniversary of\u00a0Hoosiers, the Movie\u2019s Director Recalls What a Pain Gene Hackman Was By\u00a0David Marchese Gene Hackman in &#8220;Hoosiers&#8221;\u00a0Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The success and long afterlife of\u00a0Hoosiers\u00a0\u2014 released almost exactly 30 years ago and\u00a0new on Hulu this month\u00a0\u2014 may not be quite as improbable as the events depicted in the movie, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}