Word: toback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by KAREL REISZ Screenplay by JAMES TOBACK...
...most important thing in Toback's bag, however, was the jockstrap ego of an ex-college athlete. Within an hour after he met Jim Brown at his home above Sunset Strip, the two were out on the basketball court in Brown's driveway. Down nine to nothing in a ten-point, one-on-one game, the man who walked out on pro football to prove his competence as an actor, businessman and racial leader very softly asks Toback if he really thinks he is going to win. Brown then sinks ten straight, leaving a thoroughly psyched Toback revealed...
...will to submission," Toback calls it. If he forgoes examination of the malady's finer points and racial implications, it isn't because he left his copy of Benito Cereno in New York. It is because Toback got so busy trying to certify his manhood in what he believes to be the black man's terms that submission was soon out of the question. So was the magazine article he had intended to write. But by the time that became apparent, Toback and "J.B." were good friends. This odd book is a fascinating chronicle of that very...
...Brown been less sure of his own prowess, he might have seriously scarred the vulnerable young writer. But as a swinging Batman to Toback's cocky Elobin, J.B. proves to be a concerned and even therapeutic big brother. When Toback's wife, the granddaughter of an English duke, leaves him, Brown is helpful though not overly sympathetic. It didn't take much to see that Toback had been confused about which Marl-Dorough country he really wanted to come home...
Once settled in indefinitely as Brown's house guest, Toback joined the enviable rhythms of a superstar's life. It was the ultimate locker room, a fan's towel-snapping fantasy come true-buddy to the hero, access to exciting places and beautiful people. There are mornings on the tennis court where Toback, an experienced player, barely manages to beat Beginner Brown. There are afternoons at the Black Economic Union, the organization Brown founded to generate capital and talent for Negro enterprises. There are evenings at discotheques that run wildly into all-night parties...