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.’’
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Haha yeah Tonya was all that!
Ah, thanks. :D
What you know about boxing you could write on the head of a pin
and you’d still have room for your name and address.
Oksana Baiul two-footed every jump she was supposed to end on one foot.
The judges pretended they didn’t see that.
Kerrigan was robbed.
I lived in Stoneham in the 1980s, and after I moved, I kept going to my dentist there for the next 10 years or so, until he retired.
“The media loves those who are transgressive.”
The media love evil.
“There should be no surprise about this.”
True, but it still rates criticism.
Nancy Kerrigan has long since moved on with her life. Tonya Harding is stuck in a mental feedback loop, like Hillary Clinton with 2016 election. Harding is in her own little Hell with no way out.
I thought Kerrigan was attractive enough to be interesting but not gorgeous by any means.
I always thought Kerrigan was nice, if a bit odd, and Harding was rather trailer parkish.
why not you, Nancy?
I lived in Melrose at the time which was right next to Stoneham. I remember driving by Nancy's house when there was about 20 news trucks parked outside. It was quite a big deal.
But, Tonya is more my kind of girl. Nancy was one ice-cold princess. I would feel much more comfortable dating Tonya. We'd go bowling together, knock back a few beers and then make out in the parking lot. Can't imagine a night like that with Nancy Kerrigan.
Not that I condone what Tonya's goons did on her behalf. She should have picked her friends better. She should have gone with me!
But neither could do a quintuple axel.
May the first octuple axel win.
Tonya Harding was the trailer park trash.
Drag a hundred dollar bill ...
Jerry Springer with clubbing cousins.
There were a select few women who landed the triple axel in competition. Tanya may have been first or second.
I guess I’m getting Kerrigan mixed up with poor Monica Seles. I will try harder al baby!
I remember that Disney parade, but I thought it was at Walt Disney World in Orlando.
Kerrigan was annoyed when they asked her to wear the silver medal around her neck, which she did. She publicly said wearing the medal was “corny.”
Then Nancy appeared on “Saturday Night Live” in a skit and stated that she meant to say that she was “horny.”
She is just unlikeable, no one likes her.
Yeah, I remember thinking her response was weird. The "me" thing, so it was okay if someone else got wacked?
Remember at that olympics catty Nancy was caught on camera mocking Baiul’s appearance before the medal ceremony.
She wasn’t the first. I believe Midori Ito may have been the first. Midori didn’t quite have the ballet elegance in her programs, but she was quite the jumper.
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