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    Michael Eisner at Pompey

    Rory Smith in the New York Times

    The montage took in Eisner’s real-life sporting success during his two decades leading Disney — the Anaheim Angels winning baseball’s World Series; the Anaheim Ducks lifting hockey’s Stanley Cup — but also nodded to Portsmouth’s winning the F.A. Cup in 2008, and its sealing promotion out of League Two only a couple of weeks before the gathering.

    But it blended them with scenes of fictional triumphs, all of them drawn from the couple of dozen sports movies Disney had produced during Eisner’s tenure. The first was Kurt Russell’s inspirational speech as Herb Brooks from the film “Miracle” — “Great moments are born from great opportunity” — and then came all of the most uplifting, transcendent scenes from “The Mighty Ducks” and “The Bad News Bears,” “Remember the Titans” and “Angels in the Outfield.”

    Portsmouth, founded in 1898, is considered a public trust by many of its fans, some of whom keep its most famous chant — “Play up Pompey” — close at hand at all times.
    No distinction was made, no line drawn, between the real and the imagined, the spontaneous and the scripted. There was no need to do that, in Eisner’s eyes. The films all followed the same narrative: the triumph of the underdog.

    “If it’s a good sports movie, it’s to do with winning,” Eisner said. Sports and movies, to Eisner, are the same thing at heart: They are both — they are all — stories. He has spent his career telling them, and Portsmouth is simply the latest.

    #2
    THE Rory Smith?

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      #3
      No, but we can but dream. I think this guy has finished his Highers.

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        #4
        Rory Smith who used to write for the Times and the Set pieces

        I think he's quite good.

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