HANDBALL IN THE MOVIES (Part Deux) — by Steve Nadis
Like most people, I watch movies for the handball sequences. Prime, which I reported on recently, had a one-to-two second shot of a New York City handball game. Crossing Delancey (1988), which I heard about from Gatemouth, was even better in this regard: It had a one-to-two MINUTE scene in which a young Peter Riegert took on an old-timer. I only watched the movie because I gathered from Gatemouth’s comment that handball figured prominently in the story. It did not. Yet I’m glad to have watched Crossing Delancey all the same, because it was a nice story, despite the fact that the handball subplot was undeveloped, to say the least. And Riegert’s character, Sam the “pickle man,” was really winning. (As one character in the movie put it: “Somebody’s gotta’ sell pickles.”) So I’m still giving the picture two thumbs up, even though one of those thumbs is still sprained from an aforementioned handball injury.
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I just saw a movie called “Men With Brooms” on WGN a few nights ago. One of the few films to deal with the sport of curling. Probably the only film ever as a matter of fact.
I guess that’s what makes horse racing, as they say. One man’s curling movie, as they also say, is another man’s handball movie.