2023 Fictitious Contributor Round 1

Barbara Jane Bookman

Contest: 2023 Fictitious Contributor Round 1
TV Show/Movie Appeared: Semi-Tough (1978)
Actor/Actress: Jill Clayburgh
Why you should vote:: It was a very good role.
Why you should not vote:: This was barely a sports film.
This isn’t exactly a sports movie, though it the primary characters are football players. Maybe that is why we liked the character of Barbara Jane Bookman in Semi Tough, as usually girlfriends in sports flicks are depicted as one dimensional bimbos (though they often are in real life). This was a woman we could actually believe was being fought over (albeit in a very passive way) by two gridiron stars. But again, we raise our initial point; just how much of a sports film was this?