Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'billbuckner'
May 5, 2008
People deal with grief in different ways. 22 years after the 1986 World Series, and a month after Bill Buckner's public homecoming to Fenway, Quincy's Josh Mitchell wants to make a movie about Buckner. And not just any movie - a musical where Mitchell's character road-trips to Idaho, talks Buckner out of seclusion, and brings him back to Boston to star in a revival of "No No Nanette". Oh, that age-old plot. Mitchell's Wickid Pissa......
Continue Reading "Bill Buckner to the Big Screen?"April 9, 2008
When the rumor first broke that Bill Buckner was the mystery guest at Opening Day, we thought that sounded just right. A perfect chance for diehard Sox fans, or at least the Opening Day crowd, to say all was forgiven, if in fact any forgiveness was due to the man who had to flee to Idaho to escape the indignity of a loss that he symbolized even though his was far from the only tragic......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: Homecoming"April 8, 2008
The butt of a million jokes and the name that would cause chills down the spines of Sox fans whenever it was uttered is back in Boston. Who you ask? Bucky "F'in" Dent? Nay. Grady Little? Nope. Bill Buckner. The former member of the doomed 1986 Red Sox is in town to throw out the first pitch for Opening Day . No word yet if Steve Bartman or Billy Sianis and his pet goat......
Continue Reading "Here's Bill!"October 29, 2007
8:00 PM - We're coming to you live! Not from Bostonist HQ, which is in the danger zone of potential postgame revelry, but from our outpost in Central MA (Worcesterist?) where we've been each week to watch the Pats game. The Pats, by the way, just beat Washington 845-7. Mike Vrabel caught eleven touchdown passes. FoxSports is showing Bill Buckner one last time, just in case there was one person left in town who didn't......
Continue Reading "Live-Blogging Game Four"October 20, 2006
YouTube is still up and running and we're searching out some sweet copyrighted materials before Google really gets involved and forces some of it to come down. This week we've been hitting replay clip over and over trying to learn some new words to We Didn't Start the Fire thanks to bunkosquad. Take a look back at sports in the eighties in a five minute intro clip from the CBS 4 montage intro for their......
Continue Reading "Friday Flashback: The Great 80's"March 22, 2005
Boston is always being left off the list of places to make movies. Sure, movies are set in Boston, but more likely than not that is Toronto in the background, not our beloved city. So finally this past year, Boston saw some of the Hollywood magic with the Rhode Island-bred Farrelly Brothers and their movie, "Fever Pitch." Based loosely on a British film about a fanatic soccer fan, this U.S. version has Jimmy Fallon as......
Continue Reading "Someone's Got the Fever"