Apparently there was some Tai Babilonia made-for-TV biopic
Oh, God, yes, there was. And I watched it. It was made in the '80s, and it was all about how she just fell apart and did drugs and became an alcoholic and brought strange men home and dated some guy who was on the Brady Bunch and then it was all better. The only redeeming quality was William Daniels (always gonna be John Adams in my mind) doing a very good take on John Nicks. And it gets points for a somewhat laughable scene with Tai, post-suicide-attempt, in the hospital, holding hands with Randy Gardner and going on about how they've never just held hands before. Nice naive '80s take, as if they were hoping for some faint hints of romance Tai would need a sex-change or Randy would need one of those orientation reallignment programs. (He's out now, though he wasn't at the time.)
I've never seen "My Sergei", so I don't know if it counts...read the book, though.
Oh, and "Go Figure", a Disney channel movie that has a figure skater having to join a hockey team to get a scholarship to an elite boarding school so she can train with the school's elite figure skating coach. Continues the rule that some ex-Olympian must make a cameo with Kristy Yamaguchi as herself. Basically, it's like they had rejected plot ideas for "Ice Princess" and figured hey, if we get a really cheap cast...
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Date: 2006-03-17 02:04 am (UTC)Oh, God, yes, there was. And I watched it. It was made in the '80s, and it was all about how she just fell apart and did drugs and became an alcoholic and brought strange men home and dated some guy who was on the Brady Bunch and then it was all better. The only redeeming quality was William Daniels (always gonna be John Adams in my mind) doing a very good take on John Nicks. And it gets points for a somewhat laughable scene with Tai, post-suicide-attempt, in the hospital, holding hands with Randy Gardner and going on about how they've never just held hands before. Nice naive '80s take, as if they were hoping for some faint hints of romance Tai would need a sex-change or Randy would need one of those orientation reallignment programs. (He's out now, though he wasn't at the time.)
I've never seen "My Sergei", so I don't know if it counts...read the book, though.
Oh, and "Go Figure", a Disney channel movie that has a figure skater having to join a hockey team to get a scholarship to an elite boarding school so she can train with the school's elite figure skating coach. Continues the rule that some ex-Olympian must make a cameo with Kristy Yamaguchi as herself. Basically, it's like they had rejected plot ideas for "Ice Princess" and figured hey, if we get a really cheap cast...