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, who has become one of the most thoughtful and insightful of public intellectuals, is still not exactly high on the sense of humor scale, and I think does not get McKay’s style or tone. Winning Time exaggerates Kareem’s more surly personality traits in the pre-Magic days, and does not sufficiently contextualizing them, but it is in the ballpark. 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 assholitry. I guess McKay just wanted a comic foil, but it’s kind of mean spirited to leave such a negatively defining imprint on such an important and tragically unhappy figure. On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 at 6:57 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > 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 character"... > > > https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/jerry-west-winning-time-demands-retraction-1235236494/ > > https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-slams-winning-time-boring-dishonest-1235235529/ > (links) > > > B > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1d4796c9-294f-48a4-b250-f683ad9f1c25n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/1d4796c9-294f-48a4-b250-f683ad9f1c25n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKemJB6HLUdpqMgs5YscNkNqJebCY_RFQs18PfKwgCRPQ%40mail.gmail.com.
