Kenyan distance runner Eliud Kipchoge was born in 1984, when the world record in the men’s marathon stood at 2:08:05. Today, he holds the world record at that distance, having pared the time all the way down to 2:01:39. That achievement, not to mention back to back gold medals at the Tokyo and Rio Olympics, have inspired many to declare Kipchoge the Goat (greatest of all time) in the marathon.
Kipchoge is known for his humility, but when pressed about what makes him better than his competitors, he concedes, “I think the difference between me and other marathoners is the professionalism. I am a real professional as far as running’s concerned,” he tells Deadline. “I follow what is required in sport. I really work hard. Even if I don’t feel like waking up I still wake up and just push myself. That’s what I mean by professionalism.
Kipchoge is known for his humility, but when pressed about what makes him better than his competitors, he concedes, “I think the difference between me and other marathoners is the professionalism. I am a real professional as far as running’s concerned,” he tells Deadline. “I follow what is required in sport. I really work hard. Even if I don’t feel like waking up I still wake up and just push myself. That’s what I mean by professionalism.
- 9/3/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Jimmy Kimmel celebrated President Trump's 2,000th lie, as documented by The Washington Post, with a faux documentary, Pants of Fire: The Road to 2,000 Lies.
The five-minute video, which featured clips from numerous Trump speeches and TV appearances, also included talking head experts like (fake) Washington Post fact-checker Geoffrey Russk, who proclaimed, "[Trump] is, quite simply, the Babe Ruth of bullshit."
"He's averaging about 5.6 false claims a day, which is impressive given the fact that he’s only working about 2.6 hours a day," Kimmel quipped. "And all the while that he's lying,...
The five-minute video, which featured clips from numerous Trump speeches and TV appearances, also included talking head experts like (fake) Washington Post fact-checker Geoffrey Russk, who proclaimed, "[Trump] is, quite simply, the Babe Ruth of bullshit."
"He's averaging about 5.6 false claims a day, which is impressive given the fact that he’s only working about 2.6 hours a day," Kimmel quipped. "And all the while that he's lying,...
- 1/11/2018
- Rollingstone.com
When Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile barrier in 1954 - a feat many previously thought impossible - it was broken again soon after and then several more times in fairly quick succession. Similarly, existing and seemingly unbeatable box office records in 2015 were broken and then broken again in what turned out to be a highly successful year for the cinema. Several titles grossed $1 billion and four of the top five breaking the $1.5 billion barrier. The most spectacular performance is undoubtedly the latest in the Star Wars series, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It's already passed the $1.5 billion mark despite only being in cinemas since mid-December and came close to the number one grossing film spot, finishing just $132,000 behind Jurassic World. With two more films to be produced in the next few years, Disney will enjoy a healthy financial return on its Star Wars investment if the success of The...
- 1/17/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Could the first American to beat NBC’s Ninja Warrior course be a woman?
Ex-gymnast Kacy Catanzaro first shattered American Ninja Warrior’s plexiglass ceiling by becoming the first female competitor in six seasons to complete the show’s brutal preliminary obstacle course. Then she completed the show’s near-insane semi-finals course to secure a spot in the upcoming Las Vegas finals. The 24-year-old’s inspiring performance became an online sensation, racking up 8 million views on YouTube alone. (If you’re a woman, it makes you want to go the gym. If you’re a man, it makes you really...
Ex-gymnast Kacy Catanzaro first shattered American Ninja Warrior’s plexiglass ceiling by becoming the first female competitor in six seasons to complete the show’s brutal preliminary obstacle course. Then she completed the show’s near-insane semi-finals course to secure a spot in the upcoming Las Vegas finals. The 24-year-old’s inspiring performance became an online sensation, racking up 8 million views on YouTube alone. (If you’re a woman, it makes you want to go the gym. If you’re a man, it makes you really...
- 8/19/2014
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
History remembers Franz Stampfl as one of the athletics world.s premier coaches, a former Austrian art student who mentored Olympics champions including Roger Bannister, Christopher Chataway, Ralph Doubell and John Landy.
His accomplishments were all the more remarkable considering the adversity he suffered: a near-drowning in the Atlantic Ocean after his ship was torpedoed by a German U-Boat during WW2; internment in Australia as a prisoner-of-war; and, in later life, a near-fatal car accident that rendered him a quadriplegic but did not stop him from coaching.
Australian writer-director-producer Sally McLean profiles Stampfl in her feature-length documentary A Life Unexpected: The Man Behind The Miracle Mile. McLean has a personal connection to her subject, who died in 1995: Her mother Margaret Woodlock competed in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics as a 17-year-old shot putter, one of Stampfl.s first Australian protégés.
.I never met Franz which is one of the reasons...
His accomplishments were all the more remarkable considering the adversity he suffered: a near-drowning in the Atlantic Ocean after his ship was torpedoed by a German U-Boat during WW2; internment in Australia as a prisoner-of-war; and, in later life, a near-fatal car accident that rendered him a quadriplegic but did not stop him from coaching.
Australian writer-director-producer Sally McLean profiles Stampfl in her feature-length documentary A Life Unexpected: The Man Behind The Miracle Mile. McLean has a personal connection to her subject, who died in 1995: Her mother Margaret Woodlock competed in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics as a 17-year-old shot putter, one of Stampfl.s first Australian protégés.
.I never met Franz which is one of the reasons...
- 7/23/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
It’s hard to predict who the “chosen one” will be to light the Olympic torch today, but the Internet is abuzz with contenders.
Sir Roger Bannister is currently the favorite for the task. Bannister, 83, became the first man to break the four-minute mile in 1954. Former English decathlete Daley Thompson is also in the mix.
In the past, torch lighters have included members of royalty, global icons, and young, up-and-commers as well; Prince William (and potentially wife Kate Middleton) or 22-year-old basketball player Amber Charles, who played a key role in London’s bid to host the 2012 Olympics, could also light the flame.
Sir Roger Bannister is currently the favorite for the task. Bannister, 83, became the first man to break the four-minute mile in 1954. Former English decathlete Daley Thompson is also in the mix.
In the past, torch lighters have included members of royalty, global icons, and young, up-and-commers as well; Prince William (and potentially wife Kate Middleton) or 22-year-old basketball player Amber Charles, who played a key role in London’s bid to host the 2012 Olympics, could also light the flame.
- 7/27/2012
- by Maane Khatchatourian
- EW.com - PopWatch
Danny Boyle, the director of the London 2012 opening ceremony, has admitted it will be impossible to satisfy everyone
It must distil thousands of years of history into just over an hour, reflect a nation unto itself, promote Britain to the world, satisfy the demands of politicians and organisers, entertain 1bn viewers and bring the curtain up on the planet's biggest sporting event. So no pressure.
Film director Danny Boyle, the creative director of Friday night's £27m London 2012 opening ceremony, has already admitted that it will be an impossible task to satisfy everyone.
Instead, he has produced what has been described by overall ceremonies creative chief Stephen Daldry as a "singular vision", with music by electronic duo Underworld and other top British acts and with a denouement they are confident will stay secret despite the best efforts of the media.
The identity of the person who will light the Olympic cauldron...
It must distil thousands of years of history into just over an hour, reflect a nation unto itself, promote Britain to the world, satisfy the demands of politicians and organisers, entertain 1bn viewers and bring the curtain up on the planet's biggest sporting event. So no pressure.
Film director Danny Boyle, the creative director of Friday night's £27m London 2012 opening ceremony, has already admitted that it will be an impossible task to satisfy everyone.
Instead, he has produced what has been described by overall ceremonies creative chief Stephen Daldry as a "singular vision", with music by electronic duo Underworld and other top British acts and with a denouement they are confident will stay secret despite the best efforts of the media.
The identity of the person who will light the Olympic cauldron...
- 7/26/2012
- by Owen Gibson
- The Guardian - Film News
Britain's Queen Elizabeth will receive the Olympic torch in Windsor today (10.07.12). The monarch and her husband Prince Philip will welcome the flame to Windsor Castle at around 14.45 this afternoon, when it will be carried past St George's Chapel and into the quadrangle by 12-year-old Philip Wells. Earlier today, Olympian Sir Steve Redgrave rowed down the River Thames at Henley one-handed with the torch in the other, joined by a crew of six young local rowers, with another Olympian, Garry Herbert, as the cox. Sir Roger Bannister, 83, started today's relay by carrying the flame around Oxford's Iffley Road stadium, where he broke the four-minute mile in 1954, and said it was an 'honour' to be a part of...
- 7/10/2012
- Monsters and Critics
Author Jeffrey Archer has organized a special celebrity charity auction at Christie’s in London on June 27.
“Around fifteen items have been donated by friends, and all the proceeds will go to the charities of their choice,” says Lord Archer in his official blog. "I have also donated the chief time-keeper’s stopwatch from the race on 6 May 1954 in Oxford, at which Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four minute mile (3mins 59.4 secs); the proceeds from which will go to the Oxford University Athletics Club.
“Those who have already given something include Margaret Thatcher, Michael Parkinson, Terry O’Neil, Lawrence Dallaglio and Laurence Graff. More details will be released over the coming weeks… so if anyone has anything quite exceptional they wish to add to the list, then let me know! The following day, Tuesday 28th, Christie’s will be conducting a sale of a part of my personal art collection at their Kensington salesroom.
“Around fifteen items have been donated by friends, and all the proceeds will go to the charities of their choice,” says Lord Archer in his official blog. "I have also donated the chief time-keeper’s stopwatch from the race on 6 May 1954 in Oxford, at which Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four minute mile (3mins 59.4 secs); the proceeds from which will go to the Oxford University Athletics Club.
“Those who have already given something include Margaret Thatcher, Michael Parkinson, Terry O’Neil, Lawrence Dallaglio and Laurence Graff. More details will be released over the coming weeks… so if anyone has anything quite exceptional they wish to add to the list, then let me know! The following day, Tuesday 28th, Christie’s will be conducting a sale of a part of my personal art collection at their Kensington salesroom.
- 4/25/2011
- Look to the Stars
Katharine Whitehorn on a survey of Britain in the 1950s
What was it like to live in the 1950s? Until recently the decade was thought of as a bare patch between the battleground of the 40s and the fairground of the 60s, but recently its complexities and excitements have exercised historians Peter Hennessy and Dominic Sandbrook; and now there's Family Britain, the second book in David Kynaston's three-volume New Jerusalem project. Mercifully, this massive work – nearly 800 pages – is made highly readable by all sorts of extracts and quotations from diaries, columns and oral records, and deals as much with ordinary, everyday lives as with the machinations of politics and power.
There are surprises in it even for someone who lived delightedly through those years: was rationing really not finally called off until July 1954? Was a Tory government cheerfully still subsidising milk and National Butter in 1956? Some things I remember all...
What was it like to live in the 1950s? Until recently the decade was thought of as a bare patch between the battleground of the 40s and the fairground of the 60s, but recently its complexities and excitements have exercised historians Peter Hennessy and Dominic Sandbrook; and now there's Family Britain, the second book in David Kynaston's three-volume New Jerusalem project. Mercifully, this massive work – nearly 800 pages – is made highly readable by all sorts of extracts and quotations from diaries, columns and oral records, and deals as much with ordinary, everyday lives as with the machinations of politics and power.
There are surprises in it even for someone who lived delightedly through those years: was rationing really not finally called off until July 1954? Was a Tory government cheerfully still subsidising milk and National Butter in 1956? Some things I remember all...
- 11/14/2009
- by Katharine Whitehorn
- The Guardian - Film News
I was having an argument with myself yesterday on the way home from work. It got quite heated. I was assessing the length of time it takes me to get home, and thus attempting to gauge roughly how much free time I would have before sleep stole me away for the night. I realised that it was perfectly possible to estimate the journey to a fairly accurate time-frame: between 50 and 54 minutes. That means that, leaving work at bang on six like any other dispassionate employee, I must arrive home between 6:50 and 6:54. The automatic reaction to this was to simply round up to 7 o’clock. And surely this is the normal thing to do? I wasn’t exactly going to say “right, its 6:54 now and I’ll probably hit the sack around midnight, so that gives me 5 hours and 6 minutes of free time”. That would be absurd. Rounding...
- 9/25/2009
- by Nicholas Deigman
- t5m.com
Turning the 1975 chiller "The Stepford Wives" into a campy comedy opens up a slew of movie-remake possibilities. Why not redo "The Boys From Brazil" as a musical or "The Exorcist" as a Mike Myers spoof? None is an especially good idea, but given Hollywood's current mania for remakes, sequels and redefinition of classic movie monsters, the new "Stepford Wives" represents the kind of lame brainstorm that finds its way onto a summer release schedule.
Assessing such a misbegotten film's chances at a time when Brad Pitt's pectorals evidently have salvaged the lackluster "Troy", perhaps Nicole Kidman's personality and beauty can overcome the movie's problems with tone and substance to bring boxoffice lucre to Paramount and DreamWorks. Certainly she and Bette Midler are the reasons why the film stands a chance.
The original film, based on Ira Levin's novel, tested the cultural waters of the then-emerging feminist movement to dare to suggest that angry white males would resort to creating a community of Barbie-doll wives -- robots, in fact -- to counter fears of change in the nuclear family. Like it or not, the film was meant as a cautionary sci-fi horror tale. The new film, written by Paul Rudnick and directed by Frank Oz, is a midnight-movie version.
Kidman plays Joanna Eberhart, an incredibly slick and emasculating bitch-goddess who reigns over the EBS television network, which, judging from her presentation at an affiliates meeting, must stand for the Egregious Broadcasting System. Her nasty mix of female-dominated game shows and reality TV backfires in her face, resulting in her highly unlikely firing. Her wimpy husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) quits his post as a minor vp at the web and the whole family abruptly moves to the gated township of Stepford, Conn., to begin a new life.
Only something is not quite right in suburban Stepford.
The women are all cookie-cutter sex dolls, while the men, who never seem to work, loll about the Stepford Men's Assn., slugging down brandy and playing adolescent games. This, Walter says, is "the way life should be." The den mother for the compliant female homemakers is Claire Wellington (Glenn Close), who along with her suave and controlling husband Mike Christopher Walken), pretty much runs the show.
Joanna's perturbed reaction to the women's cheerful domestic servitude is shared by two other newcomers: Bobbie Markowitz (Midler), brash, hip and Jewish -- making her the ultimate outsider in this WASPish community -- who writes male-bashing books, and Roger Bannister (Roger Bart), an architect trying to save a crumbling relationship with his politically conservative partner Jerry (David Marshall Grant).
Because the entire audience knows what's going on, the filmmakers hope to distract viewers from storytelling weaknesses with an urgent sense of style. The decor is 1950s, only cinematographer Rob Hahn's gentle lighting softens the solid colors and rigid formalism and gives a summery feel to flowery print dresses the Stepford wives all favor. The homes are all elegant mansions with sophisticated security systems and pleasing pastels.
But what is the comic point here? The film reportedly endured much rewriting, re-editing and reshooting, so there is a strong possibility the makers never addressed this before proceeding. In any event, the desire by the male characters for a retreat into '50s domestic values, while a rather obvious device, leaves the film with little wiggle room. Once the retro community gets revealed, the film stagnates. The only question is: Will the heroine be turned into a RoboJoanna by her husband? The ending is astonishingly inept. It resolves nothing and places the blame for creating this male fantasy on a woman. Say what?
Kidman, having moxie and sex appeal to spare, holds the movie together while Midler is her usual fun, rambunctious self. Bart has several good moments in an Americanized version of a Rupert Everett role. It might have been fun to witness how the Stepford husbands glory in this fantasy realm, but Rudnick's script offers scant opportunities. Jon Lovitz performs uninspired clowning playing Midler's husband, and the talented Broderick is wasted in a role that is the equivalent of wallpaper. Close and Walken play caricatures of their movie selves and everyone else, including Faith Hill as a malfunctioning robot wife, looks lost.
Technical credits are smooth including David Arnold's unobtrusive though effective score, De Govia's strong design and Ann Roth's tongue-in-cheek costumes.
THE STEPFORD WIVES
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures present a Scott Rudin/De Line Pictures production
Credits:
Director: Frank Oz
Screenwriter: Paul Rudnick
Based on the novel by: Ira Levin
Producers: Scott Rudin, Donald De Line, Edgar J. Sherick, Gabriel Grunfeld
Executive producers: Ron Bozman, Keri Lyn Selig
Director of photography: Rob Hahn
Production designer: Jackson De Govia
Music: David Arnold
Co-producer: Leslie Converse
Costume designer: Ann Roth
Editor: Jay Rabinowitz
Cast:
Joanna Eberhart: Nicole Kidman
Walter Kresby: Matthew Broderick
Bobbie Markowitz: Bette Midler
Mike Wellington: Christopher Walken
Roger Bannister: Roger Bart
Sarah Sunderson: Faith Hill
Claire Wellington: Glenn Close
Jerry Harmon: David Marshall Grant
Dave Markowitz: Jon Lovitz
Charmaine: Lorri Bagley
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 93 minutes...
Assessing such a misbegotten film's chances at a time when Brad Pitt's pectorals evidently have salvaged the lackluster "Troy", perhaps Nicole Kidman's personality and beauty can overcome the movie's problems with tone and substance to bring boxoffice lucre to Paramount and DreamWorks. Certainly she and Bette Midler are the reasons why the film stands a chance.
The original film, based on Ira Levin's novel, tested the cultural waters of the then-emerging feminist movement to dare to suggest that angry white males would resort to creating a community of Barbie-doll wives -- robots, in fact -- to counter fears of change in the nuclear family. Like it or not, the film was meant as a cautionary sci-fi horror tale. The new film, written by Paul Rudnick and directed by Frank Oz, is a midnight-movie version.
Kidman plays Joanna Eberhart, an incredibly slick and emasculating bitch-goddess who reigns over the EBS television network, which, judging from her presentation at an affiliates meeting, must stand for the Egregious Broadcasting System. Her nasty mix of female-dominated game shows and reality TV backfires in her face, resulting in her highly unlikely firing. Her wimpy husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) quits his post as a minor vp at the web and the whole family abruptly moves to the gated township of Stepford, Conn., to begin a new life.
Only something is not quite right in suburban Stepford.
The women are all cookie-cutter sex dolls, while the men, who never seem to work, loll about the Stepford Men's Assn., slugging down brandy and playing adolescent games. This, Walter says, is "the way life should be." The den mother for the compliant female homemakers is Claire Wellington (Glenn Close), who along with her suave and controlling husband Mike Christopher Walken), pretty much runs the show.
Joanna's perturbed reaction to the women's cheerful domestic servitude is shared by two other newcomers: Bobbie Markowitz (Midler), brash, hip and Jewish -- making her the ultimate outsider in this WASPish community -- who writes male-bashing books, and Roger Bannister (Roger Bart), an architect trying to save a crumbling relationship with his politically conservative partner Jerry (David Marshall Grant).
Because the entire audience knows what's going on, the filmmakers hope to distract viewers from storytelling weaknesses with an urgent sense of style. The decor is 1950s, only cinematographer Rob Hahn's gentle lighting softens the solid colors and rigid formalism and gives a summery feel to flowery print dresses the Stepford wives all favor. The homes are all elegant mansions with sophisticated security systems and pleasing pastels.
But what is the comic point here? The film reportedly endured much rewriting, re-editing and reshooting, so there is a strong possibility the makers never addressed this before proceeding. In any event, the desire by the male characters for a retreat into '50s domestic values, while a rather obvious device, leaves the film with little wiggle room. Once the retro community gets revealed, the film stagnates. The only question is: Will the heroine be turned into a RoboJoanna by her husband? The ending is astonishingly inept. It resolves nothing and places the blame for creating this male fantasy on a woman. Say what?
Kidman, having moxie and sex appeal to spare, holds the movie together while Midler is her usual fun, rambunctious self. Bart has several good moments in an Americanized version of a Rupert Everett role. It might have been fun to witness how the Stepford husbands glory in this fantasy realm, but Rudnick's script offers scant opportunities. Jon Lovitz performs uninspired clowning playing Midler's husband, and the talented Broderick is wasted in a role that is the equivalent of wallpaper. Close and Walken play caricatures of their movie selves and everyone else, including Faith Hill as a malfunctioning robot wife, looks lost.
Technical credits are smooth including David Arnold's unobtrusive though effective score, De Govia's strong design and Ann Roth's tongue-in-cheek costumes.
THE STEPFORD WIVES
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures present a Scott Rudin/De Line Pictures production
Credits:
Director: Frank Oz
Screenwriter: Paul Rudnick
Based on the novel by: Ira Levin
Producers: Scott Rudin, Donald De Line, Edgar J. Sherick, Gabriel Grunfeld
Executive producers: Ron Bozman, Keri Lyn Selig
Director of photography: Rob Hahn
Production designer: Jackson De Govia
Music: David Arnold
Co-producer: Leslie Converse
Costume designer: Ann Roth
Editor: Jay Rabinowitz
Cast:
Joanna Eberhart: Nicole Kidman
Walter Kresby: Matthew Broderick
Bobbie Markowitz: Bette Midler
Mike Wellington: Christopher Walken
Roger Bannister: Roger Bart
Sarah Sunderson: Faith Hill
Claire Wellington: Glenn Close
Jerry Harmon: David Marshall Grant
Dave Markowitz: Jon Lovitz
Charmaine: Lorri Bagley
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 93 minutes...
- 6/29/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Variety reports that Universal, Spyglass and Kennedy-Marshall, who recently united on Seabiscuit, are making plans to re-team for The Perfect Mile, a proposed book by Neal Bascomb about the competition between the world's three premiere runners to run the mile under four minutes. Slated to be published in time with the 2004 Athens Olympics, the story focuses on Oxford medical student Roger Bannister, Australian miler John Landy and American runner Wes Santee; Bannister ultimately ran the mile in 3:59.4 in 1954. Frank Marshall is planning to direct Mile from a script by Bruce McKenna. Spyglass partners Roger Birnbaum and Gary Barber will produce alongside Marshall and his partner, Kathleen Kennedy.
- 7/15/2003
- IMDbPro News
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