In the Summer of '77, I was a fourteen year-old Yankee crazy kid who watched every last moment of every single game I could on cable and read all the bad press that went along with it. All I cared about was Yankee wins and quickly tired of the whole so-called circus sideshow situations. Watching a dramatization of that season is downright PAINFUL! I remember watching the famous Fenway game when Martin and Jackson came to blows. I also remember seeing Jackson hit those three Series homers live. I'll stick with the actual, seen'em a million times highlights. And one episode's assertion that Mickey Rivers was into cock fighting was simply obscene! What bothers me most besides the over the top soap opera trimmings is how only some of the actors really nail the look of the players. Martin (at least when his hat is on) and Munson are dead on. Jackson looks like a high school actor trying to look like Reggie! Pinella isn't even close and one guy playing a member of the press is a dead ringer for Catfish Hunter which is just confusing. Perhaps he looks just like the guy, but they should err on the side of what fans of the era would remember best. After all, these were and always will be MY Yankees and if you're gonna do something like this, ya gotta get the look of the players JUST right. OK, so Steinbrenner can look wrong, but that's as far as I'll go.
Review of The Bronx Is Burning
