Posted on 01/14/2018 4:18:06 PM PST by EdnaMode
Picked-up pieces while wondering whether “bomb cyclone” and “survive the ground” have ever been used in the same sentence . . .
■ For the record, Nancy Kerrigan has not seen “I, Tonya” and doesn’t care to discuss the cinematic softening of Tonya Harding.
“I, Tonya” is a terrific film, perhaps Oscar-worthy, and Harding is on a redemption tour 24 years after her goons kneecapped Kerrigan before the Lillehammer Olympics. Tonya was a guest of honor at the recent Golden Globes and the subject of a TV special that aired on ABC Thursday night. Dollars to doughnuts she’ll be at the Oscars.
This had me wondering what Kerrigan thinks about the whole thing. Kerrigan, after all, was a victim of Harding’s dysfunctional life. The only daughter in a working-class Stoneham family (her father, the late Dan Kerrigan, was a welder who worked three jobs so Nancy would have ice time), Kerrigan delivered one of the clutch performances of all time at Lillehammer in 1994, winning a silver medal just a few weeks after she was attacked by Harding’s gang of nitwits.
I gave her a call this week. (I had a 20-year-old at-a-glance phone book and hoped my “Kerrigan” number was not for Joe Kerrigan.) Incredibly, Nancy answered my call on the first try.
I congratulated her on raising three children with her husband/agent, Jerry Solomon, and maintaining her dignity during this pop-culture-driven redemption of Harding. I asked if Kerrigan wanted to comment on it.
“Not right now,’’ she said. “I really have nothing to say about it. I haven’t seen anything. I haven’t watched anything.
“I’ve been busy. I was at the national [figure skating] championships this week so I didn’t watch the Golden Globes. I haven’t seen the movie. I’m just busy living my life.’’
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
Guest of honor. Must not have ever been accused of saying S___h___.
There is nothing worth saying about that wasn’t already said some 25 years ago. For Tonya, that’s the whole of her 15 minutes of infamy. So of course she will never tire of repeating the Big Story, elaborations and all.
Tonya Harding needs to skate back down the memory hole.
she has permission to take a knee
I can’t believe they’re turning that despicable scoundrelette into a sympathetic figure.
Kerrigan is a whiner. She can drop dead.
Figure skating......The College Football of Olympic Sports.
What? What happened to her wasn't her fault, she was attacked and her chance of winning a gold metal dashed. Certainly she was upset when it happened, who wouldn't be? But she's gone on with her life, keeps a low profile, married, raised a family and hasn't done all sorts of skivvy reality shows like Harding, and you say Kerrigan should drop dead? Really?
Whyyyyy!!! Whyyyyyy!!! Whyyyyy!!!
Lighten up Francis.
Why do you say she’s a whiner?
Harding got another five minutes with her wedding night sex tape.
Total class, that broad!
Kerrigan is a whiner. She can drop dead.
Maybe you can explain?
“Kerrigan is a whiner. She can drop dead.”
Well, Tonya, how do you really feel? Idiot.
You get whacked on the knee...let’s see how you respond.
This just shows you how sick liberals are. Kerrigan gets a knife blade stuck deep in her leg and Harding skates free and gets her own TV movie.
Jack Dempsey had lots of controversy in his fights: pushed back on the ring apron in the Firpo fight, failing to retire to a neutral corner after smashing Tunney to the ground in their rematch, and knocking out Jack Sharkey while Sharkey was complaining to the referee about low blows. But the public loved Dempsey more than Sharkey, Tunney, and Firpo combined.
This Harding-Kerrigan story is super gigantic because both skaters were immensely talented and on top of the world in a sport of beauty and grace and then this ugly-thugly violence happened to Kerrigan and Tonya’s hubby gets exposed as a perp....all while the Olympics is fast approaching. Wow! Sports/crime stories can’t get much bigger.
Nancy couldn’t do the triple axel. I saw the movie. All i can say is Margot Robbie did a great job as Tonya as did “Mom” as her mom. Tonya’s mom was portrayed as a witch! As in what a witch she was!
Really?
I'm interested as to why, how, and really?
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