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World Series of Handicapping

ESPN’s World Series of Poker is the model for the network’s planned broadcast of the National Handicapping Championship next February. (Thoroughbred Times)

Posted in Media/TV/Film on December 8, 2004

Calling Trump

A great idea: “Many of you know one of NBC’s big Thursday night hits is ‘The Apprentice,’ where candidates on two teams try to avoid being ‘fired’ by Donald Trump as they try to win tasks … One of these in the first two runs of the show has been an advertising campaign, in the first run for Marquis Jet and in the second for the NYPD’s recruitment campaign. Assuming there will be one if ‘The Apprentice’ returns for a fourth run next fall … it would be great if Breeders’ Cup, Ltd., the NTRA and NYRA work together with Mr. Trump and Mark Burnett to include early in the fourth run a task where the teams create an advertising campaign for the 2005 BC.” (Derby List)

Posted in Media/TV/Film on December 8, 2004

Those Were the Days

“‘Woodie’s World,’ an ESPN Classic series that revives sports memories through the commentary of the late Heywood Hale Broun, will look back at the winter bus trips horseplayers in New York would take to Bowie Race Track in Maryland as well as a journey Art Rooney took to Saratoga Race Course before he purchased the Pittsburgh Steelers.” The show will air at 7 p.m. (EST) on Thursday. (Thoroughbred Times)

Posted in Media/TV/Film on November 30, 2004

Casting Call

Matt Graves volunteers to cast Funny Cide: The Movie. “This is no easy job unless you know the Funny Cide folks pretty well…. We have to start with Gus Williams. I really don’t know where on this planet you could possibly find a clone of Sackatoga Stable’s most visible and vocal member, but Jack Knowlton suggested Don Rickles, and that’s probably as close as you could come.
“Knowlton is still the human star of this show, but he might be the easiest one to cast. I see Tom Hanks with that All-American-boy look and that down-home charm. How about Marsha Mason as his wife, Dorothy?
“The other main guys on the Sackatoga team would be sophisticated caterer Dave Mahan (George Clooney) and former Sackets Harbor mayor J.P. Constance, an erstwhile (and younger) Harvey Korman. We could safely go with William H. Macy as Lew Titterton.” (Times Union)

Posted in Media/TV/Film on November 10, 2004