Jim McKay
Jim McKay
James Kenneth McManus, better known by his professional name of Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth24 September 1921
CountryUnited States of America
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Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.
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So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience.
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If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.
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Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely.
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Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.
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Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.
I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way.
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And when I take him down there tonight, ... I'm 12 years old, if I'm honest about it.
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When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.
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Dick Enberg is still around and still being as good as he ever was.
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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.
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One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.
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Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.