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Fast Eddie Felson
Aug 26, 2013
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The 2019 Fictitious Athlete Inductees
The only Fictitious Athlete on the ballot who appeared before 1970, we had the opportunity to witness “Fast” Eddie Felson in “The Hustler” in 1961 and the sequel “The Color of Money” in 1986. A quarter of a century may have passed between the movies, but the similarities of brilliant performances by Paul Newman and layered storytelling make this a character we are thrilled to see at different stages of life. Now seriously, how many characters on this ballot (with the same actor we stress) can we say that about?
Doug Remer
Aug 26, 2013
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The Athletes
As we discuss all of the Fictitious Athletes, we have a candidate from a fictitious sport. Matt Stone and Trey Parker gave us BASEketball, the hybrid of HORSE, Baseball, Basketball and trash talking; all in a post Generation X Slacker world. Stone played Doug Remer, slacker turned athlete, and the kind of guy you wanted to hang around with in high school. He was a bit of the sidekick in the film, but his mini transformation to sports diva was equal part satire and hilarity. That may be good enough for a lot of people.
Doug Dorsey
Aug 25, 2013
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The Athletes
The idea that Doug Dorsey (D.B Sweeney) could easily transition from Hockey to Figure Skating may be laughable, but this is Hollywood, where this is possible. Actually, we can’t imagine any Hockey player doing this transition, or even wanting to.
Dorf
Aug 26, 2013
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The Athletes
Is Tim Conway pretending to be a very short person that funny? Granted we may not think so, but we laughed every time at the shenanigans of Super Dave Osbourne, so what do we know?