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2443490, Doc Ellis documentary on Netflix
Posted by astralblak, Fri May-08-15 07:57 PM
highly recommend this
Blackness, White America, hella drugs, chewing gum, a Jackie Robinson letter, Muhammad Ali and a whole lot of other good stuff. Plus there is a bunch of great archival video footage of Doc on and off the field.
It's called NO No
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2443504, at first I read this as "Dale Ellis" and got fired up, SMH
Posted by DJR, Fri May-08-15 08:24 PM
Hoops overload right now, I guess.
Thanks though, I'll check for this.
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2443662, i did too
Posted by Ill Jux, Sat May-09-15 09:57 AM
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2443525, FANTASTIC.
Posted by kinetic94761180, Fri May-08-15 09:03 PM
i loved every minute of this.
thx.
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2443579, right. I dug it a lot.
Posted by astralblak, Fri May-08-15 09:51 PM
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2443615, dope!!
Posted by LAbeathustla, Fri May-08-15 11:53 PM
literally
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2443638, Just fired it up
Posted by Numba_33, Sat May-09-15 04:59 AM
I don't care for baseball too much, but this is captivating stuff the first minute in.
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2443678, RE: this is captivating stuff the first minute in
Posted by kinetic94761180, Sat May-09-15 07:55 PM
that jackie robinson letter....
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2443756, I thought it was cool overall, some cheesy elements though
Posted by ConcreteCharlie, Sun May-10-15 12:29 AM
Like the music early on was a little cliche and they had to tow the line between making him this big outspoken baseball deity and showing him for what he really was, a solid player but not always a super solid guy, someone who was learning and making some big mistakes along the way.
Pretty fucked up some of the shit that his wife said, wow, but I can see that combination of drug use and realizing baseball was over for him leading him to crack and hard.
Having seen so much about the no-no (which may or may not have been thrown on acid really, has that urban legend vibe to it) and other such drug-related stuff, that part didn't do much for me. The cartoon narrated by him was much better.
What I really enjoyed were the bits about him as a drug counselor and also the letter from Jackie Robinson.
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