Reply #28: 1) Remember the Titans 2) Rudy

[pokerfan]

ESPN Reel Life has a couple of good articles on the accuracy of these two 'based on a true story' films.

"There wasn't a brick thrown through my window," Boone says in his DVD commentary. "It was something far more devastating to any human being than a brick could be. I guess Disney, being the family movie production company that it is, felt that to depict a toilet stool coming through your window was a bit much ... I've never gotten over that incident that particular night, because I could never understand how anybody could feel so bad about another human being as to throw a toilet commode through a window."

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/closer/020808.html">Reel Life: 'Remember the Titans'

For two years, Rudy was a yeoman on a communications command ship in the Navy. Then he worked in a power plant for two more years before going to Holy Cross Junior College in South Bend.

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/merron/021202.html">Waking up Rudy's echoes