What I learned about watching M-PSU: (10 things)
8. 58-yard field goals are rare in CFB, especially from Michigan kickers. Gregg Willner tried one once (I think it was 56 yards) and it looked like Martini throwing the basketball against the fence in One Flew Over the Coocoo?s Nest.
10. gotime, I expect, has not made the transition to manhood, no matter his age.
go time has applauded M basketball and I as I recall M baseball too. Don?t know his problem with M football and Harbaugh and care about it less than zero. Give credit where credit is due on the other sports.
I worked a fund raiser in Sherman Oaks, home to a lot of movie people.
Literally, as I was driving home I thought of a discussion of movies on the board, and I thought of you, and I thought to myself I would say to anybody ?I am a cinafile ? but I am a piker next to Byco.?
Big Michigan games, win or a loss, bring me home to my memories of Ann Arbor, not unlike the Kenny Loggins song ?Celebrate Me Home.?
In 1984, just before I left Ann Arbor to move to Hollywood, I was invited by the director of
One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest, a production to be done at the fledging Performance Network, to play the role of R.P. McMurphy.
It was to be an eight week, four a show on week run.
It was the best time of my life - all the live theater fan girls had the hots for me, and the Tigers started out 35-5.
The show turned out to be a huge critical and box success and launched the Performance Network from being about to close to the next 30 years of its existence.
So thanks for reminding me of that Ann Arbor memory with your reference to Martini.
And for what it?s worth, the guy who played Cheswick, Christopher Flynn, had a lot of praise for me about working on the same stage.
A student of his had left Michigan and had gone to New York on his advice, to pursue professional performance directly.
He didn?t didn?t give me the same advice though;
but I had already graduated and was heading to Hollywood.
Her name was Madonna Ciccone.
