Deford To Hollywood: Ban Boxing Movies
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Frank Deford |
NPR
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
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Actor Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Southpaw, a new movie about a junior middleweight boxing champion who faces adversity.
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The Weinstein Company
Some people wanna ban boxing. I just wanna ban boxing movies.
You get the feeling sometimes that Hollywood still thinks Joe Louis is heavyweight champion and boxing is still top-tier popular? Yes, there's yet another boxing movie out, this one entitled Southpaw.
Oh, please, please. Making boxing movies when boxing is so passé would be like if Hollywood kept making showbiz movies about vaudeville.
Click the audio above to hear Frank Deford's take on movies about boxing.
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