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Movie planned about (Barry) Bonds and steroids
Associated Press ^ | November 29, 2007

Posted on 11/29/2007 1:20:17 PM PST by Zakeet

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — HBO Films is planning to turn a best selling book about Barry Bonds' alleged steroid use and the federal government's wide-ranging probe into performance enhancing drug use in sports into a movie, one of the book's authors said Thursday.

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The planned movie based on the book "Game of Shadows" was first reported Wednesday by Variety.

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Much of the book was based on secret grand jury testimony of Bonds and other famous athletes leaked to them by Troy Ellerman, a disbarred attorney sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for denying under oath he was the reporters' source.

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TOPICS: Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: barrybonds; drugs; hbo; hollywood; sports; steroids

Of course, in keeping with long time Hollywierd policy, the movie will be done in good
taste and will carry an important character-building message for America's youth.

1 posted on 11/29/2007 1:20:18 PM PST by Zakeet
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2 posted on 11/29/2007 1:21:38 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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3 posted on 11/29/2007 1:26:36 PM PST by Scythian
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Working titles for the movie:

“Roid Rage”

“The (un)Real Thing”

“Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt”

“A Different Kind of ‘Roid’”

“Pants on Fire”


4 posted on 11/29/2007 6:04:23 PM PST by Secret Agent Man
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They might need Cinemascope to capture that head.


5 posted on 11/29/2007 6:05:16 PM PST by Petronski (Reject the liberal troika: romney, giuliani, mccain)
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When I was a kid I lived on the same street as Barry Bonds. We all thought it was weird that he was 9 years old 3 years in a row, which is what his dad Bobbie did in order to get him into Little League early.


6 posted on 11/30/2007 12:55:53 PM PST by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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