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The Life Of Don
by Paul on 10/17/08 at 08:15 AM ET
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from William Houston of the Globe and Mail,
If you liked Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, you might be interested in what Tim Cherry has in mind for a biopic about his father….
“Surprisingly, I feel that the story is pretty close to Goodfellas,” he said. “You have Henry Hill in this crazy world of the mafia. In dad’s case, it’s the crazy world of the minor leagues.
“And you have Henry Hill’s wife who kind of marries into it and has to adjust to it. Mom [the late Rose Cherry] had to do the same. She had never been to a game before she met dad. There are a lot of similarities to the two stories.”
There are certainly parallels in terms of the workplace. The minor leagues, when Cherry played, were extraordinarily violent and also populated by kooks, such as Eddie Shore, who, in addition to owning and operating the Springfield Indians, imposed medical treatments on the players.
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