Breaking Away
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His wife (Barbara Hershey) is standing over him with this worried look, like she always had.
Pretty sure Barbara Hershey was in Hoosiers, not Breaking Away.
Pretty sure Barbara Hershey was in Hoosiers, not Breaking Away.
that's the funniest scene in the movie, and there are several more, most involving the Dad. Wasn't Barbara Hershey though (thinking you got it confused with Hoosiers). I had to look it up but Barbara Barrie? She played a terrific part also.
Right you are and thanks for the correction. Wow, I forgot about Robyn Douglass playing Kathrine. What a sweetheart she was. Paul Dooley played Ray Stohler, the neurotic father. He hated Italians, as I recall, and was a real hoot as the quintessential Bloomington small lot, used car salesman from back in the day. Some of those actors played great "stoney's", too.. quarry rats in human form, if you will.
I think I read where that particular quarry has been filled in. Was that Empire Quarry? I'm sure it had to do with attorney's eager to sue for you. Why else would they fill in a famous swimming hole. Once that movie became a hit I imagine attendance really picked up and attracted all kinds of screw balls. By '79 when the movie came out, my exhibitionist days had already come to a close, at least in Bloomington anyway.
There is something special about Btown maybe, but I don't recognize it much any more. I hate going there, and my wife, seriously got in a argument with Christy Brinkley at the View outside. We sat right next to them, didn't bother them, but she just said "hey we liked you at farm aid this year" as we were leaving, and you know what Christy said, "that's not john, it's his Dad", wifey called BS ... true story.
While we're at it, can we put this 'Cutters' nonsense to rest?
The Bloomington townspeople were called Stonies. No one called them 'Cutters'. 'Cutters' is from the movie. I'm embarrassed for the Little 5 teams that think it's cool to call themselves the 'Cutters'.
You don't have to believe me, but you do have to believe Johnny Cougar circa 1978:
Listen closely; at around 1:15 in the video, who's dancing to the radio? It ain't Cutters.
Courtsensetwo - you are honor-bound to agree with me.
The Bloomington townspeople were called Stonies. No one called them 'Cutters'. 'Cutters' is from the movie. I'm embarrassed for the Little 5 teams that think it's cool to call themselves the 'Cutters'.
You don't have to believe me, but you do have to believe Johnny Cougar circa 1978:
Listen closely; at around 1:15 in the video, who's dancing to the radio? It ain't Cutters.
Courtsensetwo - you are honor-bound to agree with me.
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watched a girl break her tail bone jumping at the quarries. Worst landing ever.
His dad, Richard, frequents the Malibu Grill and I was told he always sits in the same bar-side table when there. The walls are covered with people photos and he's in quite a few of them at this spot. He always manages to have a younger babe by his side. Also, he frequently attends IU basketball games, or at least he did, with season tickets on the sideline bleachers, next to the IU player exit.
My wife and I went to Farm-Aid the last time it was in Chicago, 2015,...Mellencamp, Imagine Dragons, Old Crow Medicine Show, Willy, Lucas Nelson, Jack Johnson, Neil Young. John's dad attends them all.
Hopefully, she was naked and didn't squirt water out her ass when you helped her get out. Sometimes you have to suck it up, taking the good with the bad.
Barbara Barrie. Barbara Hershey was the female lead in Hoosiers.
I had so many friends who complained about cold water enemas, that being my homophobic self at the time, and not wanting my nether regions penetrated by anything, not even lake water, I had a propensity to lean forward and got my lip busted pretty badly one time from hitting the water. Looked like someone had sucker punched me in a bar fight for about a week. That speed is no joke and could probably kill you if you hit the water at the wrong angle. Many years later, I got goaded in to jumping from a train bridge here in NC that is half the height of Rooftop and was leaning too far back and busted my ass and it left the nastiest plate-sized purple, black and blue bruise on my ass and thigh, you could imagine. All I could think was "glad that wasn't rooftop!"
That you for the very nice, uplifting, visual. It's always fun to watch 'em float and a great way to jumpstart my day.
That’s a great movie. Steve Tesich wrote the screenplay and won the academy award. Tesich graduated IU the same year I did and rode the Little 5 for Phi Psi’s. Dave Blaise who also rode for the Phi Psi’s was the inspiration for the David Stohler character. Dave is the race announcer in the movie. He probably could have ridden the race by himself and won. I knew Tesich and Blaise a little.
Tesich moved to Evergreen Colorado and wrote another bicycle race move called American Flyers. Kinda of a cheesy script but lots of fantastic scenes of Colorado. American Flyers stars a very young Kevin Costner.
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what do you mean by "helped her get out"? the quarry takes some, it spares some. better to not interfere. lol
'You're not the quarterback here Mike'
'At least I was once.'
'At least I was once.'
Wow, never put that together. Rod was a dick in both movies.
"Hans....boobie, I'm your white knight."
Also, wasn't aware he directed PCU. Another underrated flick.
Sanders Quarry, and yes, it has been at least partially filled.
'Breaking Away' Quarry Partially Filled In: 'There Would Be 300 People Back There'
Residents near the famous quarry say there have been issues with people trespassing onto nearby residents' property and getting seriously injured from jumping into the water.
indianapublicmedia.org
This was very much the Coug, with Brinkley. The weird thing about it is they were with this fat guy who looked liked he'd stolen one of Magnum PI's shirts and stretched it to fit and wiped mustard on it. Was sort of funny, and we weren't gawking or anything, but my wife just tried to compliment him as leaving and Christy got bitchy, and my wife can give as good as she gets. I think this was maybe a week after the date you mentioned.
We didn't go that year, but listened to it on XM. I've never seen his Dad, but maybe that's what they try to do to avoid attention if it's plausible, but it wasn't, she was driving a white Mercedes convertible and the seriously funny end to the story was a few years later I traded my classic BMW into Bloomington Ford because it was just costing too much maintenance and they told me the Coug would probably be the buyer. I thought that was cool, but the salesmen said no, he's kind of a a-hole
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had hoped he mellowed with age but I heard lots of stories of him being a complete d***wad around Btown and Indy when he was younger.
I know a few people who knew him back in the day (including two of his cousins). They share that opinion of him as well.
I grew up in Bloomington and never heard either term until the movie and the Mellencamp song. Maybe the people who actually worked in the quarries were called stonies in some circles, but it was not a common term for a townie that I ever heard.
This^^^. I didn't grow up in Bloomington but where I grew up wasn't too far from there. I knew IU students, local residents, and people who worked in Bloomington all my life and until the movie came out I had never heard the term "cutters" ( or "stonies") to describe the locals. It was used as a term for Bedford High Schools athletic teams by local media since their mascot was the Stonecutters. That was the only place I had ever seen or heard the term.
During my years at IU ( I was a freshman when Breaking Away was filmed, a soph. when it was released), even after the movie, it wasn't used. To me and everyone else I knew they were "townies" and even then, if there was conflict between IU students and local kids I didn't witness it. I loved the movie, but always understood the underlying plot of conflict between students and local kids was for dramatic effect.
John looks just like his dad. I think Richard knows how to work his son's stardom to his advantage. A lot of people will agree with the salesman's assessment of John's "puckered starfish" personality flaw. It must come from being a big shot born in a small town. There aren't too many PhD's coming out of Seymour IN, if you catch my drift.
Fairly common term used on campus for the town folks when I was there late 60's early 70's.
ams66 said:
I grew up in Bloomington and never heard either term until the movie
oldcougar77 said:
I didn't grow up in Bloomington but where I grew up wasn't too far from there. I knew IU students, local residents, and people who worked in Bloomington all my life and until the movie came out I had never heard the term "cutters" ( or "stonies") to describe the locals.
My point was that Tesich (or whomever) invented the term 'Cutters' for the movie, probably because 'Stonies' was too close to 'stoners' (potheads). Maybe it's fallen out of use since the mid-seventies.
'Townies', when used in the town and gown sense, is usually intended to be a mildly derogatory term. I grew up in a college town (not Bloomington). In my experience, it usually applies to working class residents, not the local bank president. The same goes for 'stonies'.
I was never aware of any conflict between IU students and the Bloomington young people, but I did routinely hear the local working class people referred to as 'stonies'. If you grew up in a middle class Bloomington family, or were otherwise collegebound, you weren't a stonie/cutter. The movie makes this clear. However, to IU students from northern Indiana, or out of state students from the upper midwest or northeast, you probably sound like one.
This board seems to be dominated by posters from southern Indiana. My freshman roommate was from a place he called 'Veevee' Indiana; he sounded to me like he was from rural Mississippi.
I digress. I'll close with this thought - if your'e from B-town, or nearby, or even from 'Veevee', no one would use the term 'stonie' (or 'cutter') in your presence.
I grew up in Bloomington and never heard either term until the movie
oldcougar77 said:
I didn't grow up in Bloomington but where I grew up wasn't too far from there. I knew IU students, local residents, and people who worked in Bloomington all my life and until the movie came out I had never heard the term "cutters" ( or "stonies") to describe the locals.
My point was that Tesich (or whomever) invented the term 'Cutters' for the movie, probably because 'Stonies' was too close to 'stoners' (potheads). Maybe it's fallen out of use since the mid-seventies.
'Townies', when used in the town and gown sense, is usually intended to be a mildly derogatory term. I grew up in a college town (not Bloomington). In my experience, it usually applies to working class residents, not the local bank president. The same goes for 'stonies'.
I was never aware of any conflict between IU students and the Bloomington young people, but I did routinely hear the local working class people referred to as 'stonies'. If you grew up in a middle class Bloomington family, or were otherwise collegebound, you weren't a stonie/cutter. The movie makes this clear. However, to IU students from northern Indiana, or out of state students from the upper midwest or northeast, you probably sound like one.
This board seems to be dominated by posters from southern Indiana. My freshman roommate was from a place he called 'Veevee' Indiana; he sounded to me like he was from rural Mississippi.
I digress. I'll close with this thought - if your'e from B-town, or nearby, or even from 'Veevee', no one would use the term 'stonie' (or 'cutter') in your presence.
Stonies. (Quarry workers). I don't know how the towns folks took it. I dont think it was meant to be derogatory. I think in those days the students and local residents got along pretty well. The local people were friendly towards students.
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