{3 Clympic Glory plays at
the Alcan Omnimax
Theatre at Science Werld
until March 16, 2000. Call
443-7440 for information.

Bob Hackin

News Reporter

SO you didn’t make it
to the Winter Olympics
in Nagano, Japan.

. Don’t despair, because
“Frank Marshall was there and
he brought back the sights
and sounds of the February
1998 Games in a nice and
tidy ackage.

he veteran Hollywood.
++ producer and director —
whose credits include the
: Back to the Future and
indiana Jones trilogics —
produced Olympic Glory. The
larger-than-life 40-minute
documentary opened last
month on the five-storey
screen of the Alcan Omnimax
Theatre at Science World in

; farshall’ assembled a gold.
dal calibre team to capture
he essence of the: 16-day.

and most frigid sports festival.
“One of the best
pproaches to all 'movies.is to
et the best people you can
Pp . Marshall :
said. before the Vancouver
premiere of the $4-mi fon
Us prokect. i ;
plionic éonductor ;
job Williams and narrator.
Stacy Keach illuminated the
rose of renowned author «
omas Keneally, Veteran”
Imex director Kieth Merrill .

cight athletes experiencing
the thrill of victory and agony
of defeat.

Canadians are part of me
film, but not at the centre of
the podium. Marshall missed
Ross Rebagliati’s surprising
snowboaraing gold medal,
because Magano’s organizers
required camera positions be
chosen a year in advance. He

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game. Ar Icast Canada won a
medal in that event.

Athletes sporting the
maple leaf also played second
fiddle to gold medal perfor-
mances by Japanese speed
skater Hiroyasy Shimizu.
Olympic Glory also shows
. ‘dewnhill skiers Picabo Strect
“of the US. and Austrian
~ Hermann Maier rebound
from frightening crashes to

: claim gold medals. American -

figure skaters Tara Lipinski

- and Michelle Kwan battle

~ gracefully for gold and silver.
Meanwhile, Japanese ski |
jumper Masahiko Harada
 redeems his disappointing
"short jump from Lillehammer
in 1994 with a record-break-
ing jump before his country-

mich at Nagano.
The film’s hero is an
unlikely African named Philip
he Kenyan cros “COUN
try runner strapped on ski
for the first time two years
fefore Nagano and maved to
chilly Finland for lessons. He
finished last in the 10-kilome-
tre cross-country skiing event,
20 minutes behind winner
Bjorn Dachlie of Norway.
Bur Boit Ictt Japan with gold-
en memories after Dachlie
greeted him at the finish line.

Imagine that, an cight-
time gold medallist recogniz-
ing a rookie’s last-place
effort.

“We were lucky enough to
get a couple of great
moments that we builc the
movie around,” Marshall said.

“With Bjorn and Philip hug-

ging at the end of the race,
that gave me a theme. in his
interview he even though
he came in last, he felt tike a
champion. That was really
what we hung t the movie on.”

Marshall, 33, played soc-
cer for UCLA from 1966-68
and is a distance runner. He
serves on the U.S. Olympic
Committee’s board and looks
forward to returning to
upcoming Olympic Games as
a spectator. He's mulling an
offer to produce 2 feature-
length documentary on the
end of the Chicago Bulls’
dynasty called The Last
Dance.

“They shot 500 hours of
film during the last year of
the (Mich e! Jordan-led)
Bulls. Pll be bleary eyed by
the time I look at all of it.
They just had a feeling some-
thing special was going to
happen and they were rig!

Friday,

November 26, 1999 — Morth Shore News - 25

FRANK Marshall, a Hollywood veteran, produced ‘Olympic Glory,
docurneniary of ‘the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. tt It’s pieying now at Scle

‘World’s Omnimax theatre.

Dolby surround i reeter ver waa Sony.
er $1000?