Wednesday, June 28, 2006

HANDBALL IN THE MOVIES — by Steve Nadis

Last week, I watched the movie “Prime,” which came out on DVD a few months ago. The movie (starring Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep) is OK, as contemporary romantic comedies go–nothing special, and certainly not worth writing about in a discriminating blog like this except for one thing: In the opening montage of New York City street scenes, handball was featured, which may be a movie first. At least I can’t recall seeing handball in a big commercial picture before. However, I only recommend the movie for the true handball aficionado since the handball shots–good as they were (and they were, indeed, outstanding)–lasted less than two seconds.
Posted by Snake in 03:30:58
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9 Responses

  1. gatemouth says:
    June 28, 2006 at 8:22 am

    Snake, Snake, Snake–have you forgotten Billy Crystal playing handball in “When Harry Met Sally”? And didn’t Peter Riegert play handball in “Crossing Delancey”? And wasn’t there a famous handball scene in “Debbie Does Dallas”? Oh wait–that wasn’t handball.

    Never mind.

  2. Snake says:
    June 28, 2006 at 8:37 am

    Thanks Gatemouth for the jog to my apparently fallible memory. I saw both those pictures year ago but apparently forgot the most memorable parts. So when the lady in the restaurant said, “I’ll have what she’s having,” she was actually referring to handball?

  3. gatemouth says:
    June 28, 2006 at 9:02 am

    Yes! Yes! YEEEEESSSS! (According to Freud, everything is really about handball.)

  4. Snake says:
    June 28, 2006 at 10:15 am

    It seems Freud got at least one thing right: There certainly is something primal about smashing a ball with your bare (or almost bare) hands.

  5. ZARDOZ says:
    June 28, 2006 at 11:57 pm

    sure and lets not forget t.v. serials

    especially BARETTA ,, S.W.A.T. and the like

    all with handball scenes……………….

    i think even TWIN PEAKS had a scene with handball.

    lucky you snake ,,,now you have many handball reasons
    to watch ,,television

  6. Snake says:
    June 29, 2006 at 8:50 am

    Thanks Z–it looks like a summer of reruns for me.

  7. Randie Moler says:
    September 23, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    I saw an old black and white movie, I think with Jack Webb, where 2 guys were playing 4 wall, and one of them turned around and clocked the other guy. Been trying to did it up, but no luck so far :(

  8. Anonymous says:
    September 24, 2007 at 12:12 am

    Thanks Randie — I’ll be on the lookout!
    –SNAKE

  9. dofus says:
    March 6, 2009 at 9:43 am

    I admire your work,can you teach me how to write such a nice article

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