The Sports Pages (TV 2001)

Director:

Richard Benjamin

Writers:

Don Marquis (story), Donald Todd (teleplay),

Stars:

Kelsey Grammer, Bob Newhart, Brian Markinson

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kelsey Grammer	...	Howard Greene (segment "How Doc Waddems Finally Broke 100")
Bob Newhart	...	Doc Waddems (segment "How Doc Waddems Finally Broke 100")
Brian Markinson	...	Robert Russo (segment "How Doc Waddems Finally Broke 100")
Graham Jarvis	...	Judge (segment "How Doc Waddems Finally Broke 100")
Kevin McNulty	...	(segment "How Doc Waddems Finally Broke 100")
Gillian Barber	...	(segment "How Doc Waddems Finally Broke 100")
Dee Jay Jackson	...	(segment "How Doc Waddems Finally Broke 100")
Robin Mossley	...	(segment "How Doc Waddems Finally Broke 100")
Ellie Harvie	...	Melinda (segment "The Heidi Bowl")
Gary Basaraba	...	Frank (segment "The Heidi Bowl")
John Kapelos	...	Marvin (segment "The Heidi Bowl")
Zachary Ansley	...	Peyton (segment "The Heidi Bowl")
Eugene Levy	...	Mr. White (segment "The Heidi Bowl")
Jeremy Ratchford	...	(segment "The Heidi Bowl")
Philip Maurice Hayes	...	(segment "The Heidi Bowl") (as Phillip Maurice Hayes)

Storyline

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Taglines:

Revenge is a contact sport.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Sport

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 January 2001 (USA)

Also Known As:

Caderno de Esportes

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Showtime Networks

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Bob Newhart is an excellent golfer in real life. He went to golf courses and studied the worst golfers to prepare to play a bad golfer.

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Connections

Features Heidi (1968)

User Reviews

Too good for the viewer

It is tricky to write a review of the "Sports Pages" as it consists of two almost independent stories, "How Doc Waddens finally broke 100" and "The Heidi Bowl".

While the Heidi Bowl describes an event that actually happened and that is still in the mind of pretty much every US football fan, the Story of Doc Waddens is entirely fictionuous.

Well, I happened to see the "Sports Pages" twice during my two-week holiday in Varadero. However, the most disappointing issue is that obviously US viewers don't seem to understand it at all.

Part one - Doc Waddens - is full of between-the-lines humor and Bob Newhart plays his role as good as a Brit would do. Ever imagined you have just been pleaded 'not guilty' after killing a Golf enthusiast friend, and now you want to buy the victim's set of clubs from the widow? Weird ideas of that kind by the truckload and a brilliant performance by the staff.

The "Heidi Bowl" sports the well-known football event but wrapped in half a dozen of small or not-so-small stories that all lead to the big final. A well-filmed view on the typical American everyday-craze that make them look so stupid everywhere else in the world. Yet they, themselves, just don't get it.

Go and watch it, it's great!

Barboelsch