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Article: No KO.(C)(Sports)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 29, 2001
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Byline: Thom Loverro
There's a scene in the 1996 documentary, "When We Were Kings," about Muhammad Ali's fight against George Foreman in Zaire, where Drew "Bundini" Brown, Ali's confidant and assistant trainer, offered some good insights for Hollywood.
"This is no Hollywood set," Brown said, talking about the life and times of Ali. "This is real. Hollywood come in here and take these scenes, have somebody come in there playing his life. This is real, we don't pick up a script. This is God's act, we're just actors in it."
It wasn't always easy to figure out what Bundini was saying, but here he was pointing out, how could you make a movie ...