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Starting Five – Celebrity

And now…… Your Starting Five!”
 
Personalities from the worlds of Sports and Hollywood pick their favorite sports movies
                                       (selections listed in no particular order)
 
Sylvester Stallone
Producer/writer/director/actor -”Rocky”, “Paradise Alley”, “Victory”, “Death Race 2000″, “Over the Top”, “Driven”
 
Chariots of Fire
Jim Thorpe All-American
Champion
National Velvet
Requiem for a Heavyweight
 
Spike Lee 
Producer/writer/director/actor -  “He Got Game” “Jim Brown”  “Love and Basketball”
 
Fat City
Bull Durham
Raging Bull
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Hoop Dreams
 
Ted Kotcheff             
Director – “North Dallas Forty”
 
Pride of the Yankees
Fear Strikes Out
Champion
Field of Dreams
Raging Bull
 
Robert Siegel
Writer- “The Wrestler”
Writer/Director- “Big Fan”
 
Raging Bull
Slap Shot
Bull Durham
Fat City
Rocky
 
John Davis                
Producer “The Express”, “Dr. Doolittle”, “Behind Enemy Lines”
 
Hoosiers
North Dallas Forty
The Natural
Brian’s Song
Rocky
 
Bernie Mac
Actor “Mr. 3000″, “Ocean’s 13″, “Soul Men”
 
Hoosiers
The Natural
Any Given Sunday
Raging Bull
Soul of the Game
 
Dennis Quaid
Actor- “Breaking Away”, “The Rookie”, “Everybody’s All American”, “Any Given Sunday”, “Tough Enough”, “Our Winning Season”, “The Express”
 
Hoosiers
The Natural
Field of Dreams
Pride of the Yankees
Rocky
 
Mike Tollin
Producer/director – “Radio”, “Hardball”, “Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream”
 
It Happens Every Spring
Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
Hoosiers
Raging Bull
 
Barry Pepper
Actor   “Saving Private Ryan”, “3- The Dale Earnhardt Story”, “*61″
 
The Natural
Slap Shot
Hoosiers
When We Were Kings
Color of Money
 
Billy Crystal
Producer/Director/Screenwriter/Actor “Forget Paris”,  “Animalympics”,  “61*”
 
Bull Durham
Hoop Dreams
The Pride of the Yankees
Hoosiers
Pastime
 
Gary Ross  
Writer/director/producer           “Big”, “Dave”, “Seabiscuit”
 
Bull Durham
The Rookie
Slap Shot
Personal Best
Kill the Umpire
 
Ross Greenburg  
President – HBO Sports
 
61*
Field of Dreams
Rocky
The Natural
Raging Bull
 
John Turturro
Actor- “He Got Game”, “Raging Bull”, “Monday Night Mayhem”, “The Color of Money”
 
Slap Shot
Raging Bull
Body and Soul
Jim Thorpe All-American
Requiem for a Heavyweight
 
Robert Wise  
Director “The Set Up, “Somebody Up There Likes Me”
 
Jim Thorpe All-American
Brian’s Song
The Longest Yard
North Dallas Forty
Heaven Can Wait
 
Renny Harlin  
Director “Driven”, “Cliffhanger”, “Cutthroat Island”
 
Grand Prix
Field of Dreams
Any Given Sunday
North Dallas Forty
Chariots of Fire
 
Jim Brown  
Actor “Any Given Sunday”, “He Got Game”, “The Running Man”
 
Rocky
The Longest Yard
Raging Bull
He Got Game
Any Given Sunday
 
Robert Loggia 
Actor “Somebody Up There Likes Me, “Necessary Roughness”
 
Body and Soul
Raging Bull
North Dallas Forty
The Pride of the Yankees
The Longest Yard
 
Dave Hanson
Actor  “Slap Shot”
 
Slap Shot
The Natural
Caddyshack
Bull Durham
For the Love of the Game
 
Stacy Keach 
Actor “Fat City”, “Hemingway”, “Mike Hammer”, “The Long Riders”
 
The Rookie
North Dallas Forty
Raging Bull
Any Given Sunday
A Winner Never Quits – The Pete Gray Story
 
Dean Cain
Actor “Clubhouse”, “Lois&Clark: The New Adventures of Superman”
 
Brian’s Song
Rocky
Hoosiers
Rudy
Slap Shot
 
Barry Newman
Actor  “Vanishing Point”, “Nightingales”, “Petrocelli”, “The O.C.”
 
Fear Strikes Out
Field of Dreams
Requiem for a Heavyweight
The Set Up
Million Dollar Baby
 
Marlon Wayans
Actor “Scary Movie”, “The Sixth Man”, “White Chicks”
 
Lucas  
Rudy
Bad News Bears (original) 
The Longest Yard (remake) 
Brian’s Song 
 
Donovan McNabb
Quarterback  Philadelphia Eagles
 
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Remember the Titans
Love and Basketball
Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings
Jerry Maguire
 
Tony Gonzalez
Tight End – Atlanta Falcons
 
The Longest Yard
Remember the Titans
Dodgeball
North Dallas Forty
Seabiscuit
 
David Pliler
Writer – Forever Strong
 
Hoosiers
The Rookie 
Remember the Titans
Friday Night Lights
Field of Dreams 
Jennifer Flackett & Mark Levin
Writers – “Wimbledon”
 
The Natural
Heaven Can Wait
Color of Money
Downhill Racer
Bad News Bears
Smush Parker
Interneational Basketball – China
 
Heaven is a Playground
Necessary Roughness
Undisputed 1&2
The Air Up There
Any Given Sunday
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