The inspiring heartwarming film ' Radio '


	The inspiring heartwarming film ' Radio '

tidbit2

8-1-2009 12:21 PM

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tidbit2 says:

just saw this last night on tv
was better than I first expected
another good article here
http://hanna.anderson5.net/modules/cms/pages.phtml?sessionid=960c991b71ee1533acc3fc18d7912dff&pageid=426&sessionid=5626b3e7799f20c8f8a55fb645085a6b

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/53cba844-f90d-4be7-a36f-be832d19904c/3E1AAE66-40A7-4489-B01D-A8C684459BD9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio_(film)&oldid=303417274" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio_(film)&oldid=303417274" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio_(film)&oldid=303417274"><P><I><B>Radio</B></I>, released October <A title="2003" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003">2003</A>, is a <A title="Film" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film">film</A> directed by <A class="mw-redirect" title="Mike Tollin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tollin">Mike Tollin</A> that is based on the true story of <A class="mw-redirect" title="T.L. Hanna High School" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.L._Hanna_High_School">T.L. Hanna High School</A> football coach Harold Jones (<A title="Ed Harris" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Harris">Ed Harris</A>) and a mentally-challenged young man James Robert "Radio" Kennedy (<A title="Cuba Gooding, Jr." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Gooding,_Jr.">Cuba Gooding, Jr.</A>). Also starring <A title="Debra Winger" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debra_Winger">Debra Winger</A> and <A title="Alfre Woodard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfre_Woodard">Alfre Woodard</A>, it was inspired by the 1996 <I><A title="Sports Illustrated" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</A></I> article <A rel="nofollow" title="http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1009232/index.htm" class="external text" href="http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1009232/index.htm">"Someone to Lean On"</A> by <A title="Gary Smith (sportswriter)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Smith_(sportswriter)">Gary Smith</A>.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-pena_0-0"><A href="#cite_note-pena-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio_(film)&oldid=303417274"><P>James Robert Kennedy (born <SPAN title="1946-10-14" class="mw-formatted-date"><SPAN title="10-14" class="mw-formatted-date"><A title="October 14" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_14">October 14</A></SPAN>, <A title="1946" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946">1946</A></SPAN> in <A title="Anderson, South Carolina" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson,_South_Carolina">Anderson, South Carolina</A>, USA), grew up most of his life carrying the fascination of <A title="Receiver (radio)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_(radio)">radios</A>. His nickname, Radio, was given to him by the townspeople because of the radio he carried around with him everywhere he went. He still attends T. L. Hanna High School and coaches the football team. He is known to ask students before football games, "We gonna get that quarterback?"</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio_(film)&oldid=303417274"><H1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading">Radio (film)</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio_(film)&oldid=303417274"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A rel="nofollow" title="http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1009232/index.htm" class="external text" href="http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1009232/index.htm">"Someone to Lean On"</A> by <A title="Gary Smith (sportswriter)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Smith_(sportswriter)">Gary Smith</A> - the magazine article that inspired <A class="mw-redirect" title="Mike Tollin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tollin">Mike Tollin</A> to make the film.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio_(film)&oldid=303417274"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A rel="nofollow" title="http://www.radioandcoachjones.com/" class="external text" href="http://www.radioandcoachjones.com/">The official website of Radio and Coach Jones</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio_(film)&oldid=303417274"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/DE38E5CF-11B7-4679-BB59-802E74CE053C" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3E1AAE66-40A7-4489-B01D-A8C684459BD9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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