The Making of Slap Shot: Behind the Scenes of the Greatest Hockey Movie Ever Made

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The Making of Slap Shot reveals the improbable, hilarious, behind-the-scenes story about the crazy and wildly popular film Slap Shot-a story too real and too good not to be true. Personal interviews with cast members, production staff and others offer a rare inside view of the making of Slap Shot, including little-known facts, anecdotes from the set, and, best of all, a chance to get inside the locker room with the Charlestown Chiefs, one of the best known and most popular fictional sports teams in history.

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Overview

The Making of Slap Shot reveals the improbable, hilarious, behind-the-scenes story about the crazy and wildly popular film Slap Shot-a story too real and too good not to be true. Personal interviews with cast members, production staff and others offer a rare inside view of the making of Slap Shot, including little-known facts, anecdotes from the set, and, best of all, a chance to get inside the locker room with the Charlestown Chiefs, one of the best known and most popular fictional sports teams in history.

#5 on sports Illustrated's list of the Top 50 Greatest Sports Movies.

#1 on Maxim's list of the 100 Greatest Guy Movies Ever Made.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780470159415
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 11/9/2010
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 1,299,601
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

JONATHON JACKSON’s journalism career began in his hometown of Owen Sound, Ontario, where he was far too young to see Slap Shot at the Roxy Theatre in the summer of 1977. Jackson worked as a general assignment news and sports reporter at the Owen Sound Sun Times daily newspaper for 16 years, and was part of a three-man team that won a Western Ontario Newspaper Award for spot news coverage of a deadly tainted water crisis in 2000. An article he wrote about Owen Sound hockey legend Pat McReavy was cited as an honorable mention in The Best American Sports Writing 2009. Jackson’s byline has appeared in many newspapers across Canada, including the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen, the Calgary Herald, the Edmonton Journal and the Hamilton Spectator. He is also a freelance writer who has written about a variety of topics, including news, sports, entertainment and history, for Maclean’s magazine, The Hockey News, OHA Blueline, and several other publications. He lives in Owen Sound with his family.
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Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Prologue ix

Chapter 1 Entertainment for the Whole Family! 1

Chapter 2 The Toughest Team in the Federal League 13

Chapter 3 Folk Heroes 33

Chapter 4 Finding a Buyer 47

Chapter 5 The Casting Process 69

Chapter 6 The story on That Dog 97

Chapter 7 Believing Your Freaking Eyes 119

Chapter 8 Letting 'Em Know You're There 135

Chapter 9 Right Back Where We Started From 161

Chapter 10 Violent, Bloody and Thoroughly Revolting 181

Chapter 11 We All Saw it With Our Own Eyes 201

Chapter 12 Still Putting on the Foil 219

Chapter 13 A Life of Its Own 235

Chapter 14 Defending the Honor of Charlestown 263

Epilogue 289

Acknowledgments 295

Index 299

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