I don’t dispute the inaccuracies, or even that many of them seem
unnecessary and (as I have said with The Logo) unnecessarily mean
spirited). But, while in a documentary inaccuracies even in small details
legitimately undermine the value and credibility of the whole whorl, with a
project like this
Allegedly this project was either what led to McKay and Will Ferrell breaking
their professional (and possibly personal) relationship, or the final straw.
But alas, it has little to do with the veracity of the project but that Ferrell
wanted to play Jerry Buss.
I recognize it can be
I'll agree it's fiction, rather than a documentary, but the problem for me is
less that the Lakers/Celtics game was in February and the second game they
played than it's utterly baffling what the point McKay wants to make is. If
he's going to portray the Boston fans as racist assholes,
I have just watched episodes 5-8, and have to say I am liking it more and
more. Of course it gets many of the historical details wrong. I believe the
Lakers and Celtics did play in late December that first year, but that was
the Forum game Dave mentions the Lakers won handily. The nail biter at
I was a fan of those Lakers, too, and I just can't get past the, frankly,
stupid and unnecessary tinkering with history in the name of creating a
(badly-told) story. The most egregious examples in the latest episode were
that, despite the show claiming that the first Lakers/Celtics game that
From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of PGage
>But it’s portrayal of West is more puzzlingly extreme and distorted. West was
>(and is) extremely intense, but it is fueled more by pathological and self
>destructive anxiety, not insecurity or
The list of things I am actually an expert on is very small; one of the
items on that list is the Lakers in general, and the Showtime era in
particular. I actually am enjoying the HBO series, even though Kareem is my
favorite athlete of all time, and Jerry West one of my childhood heroes.
Kareem,
The Lakers greats took different paths to do so... West fired off a nasty
letter to Adam McKay and HBO calling for legal retraction of his portrayal,
while "Cap" on his (paywalled) blog generally knocked the "bland
characterization" and questioned how it "turn[ed West] into a Wile E.
Coyote
