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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Fever Pitch

From Sunshine:

Translating 'British Obsessive Male' Into American:

"They didn't say it couldn't be about soccer," Mr. Ganz said in a recent telephone interview. "They just said Americanize it."

Americanize to Mr. Ganz and Mr. Mandel meant turning it into a romantic comedy - a kind of love triangle in which the male character has to choose between his girl and his obsession - and they then set about finding something for the male character to obsess about. They didn't immediately rule out soccer, Mr. Ganz said, and for a while they also considered football - American football. "We thought about the Green Bay Packers," he said.

"But we didn't want to have to see a cheesehead," Mr. Mandel said, squeezing in a rare interruption. In this pairing, Mr. Ganz is the alpha talker.

Yeah, cheeseheads are dumb. Know what? I've been to lots of games in Green Bay (thanks and praise to Ba Ha Ha for it, too). Most people don't wear the cheesehead. But Green Bay is in the vast middle part of the country, so we're supposed to excuse the provincial Babaloo if all he knows about Green Bay is what he saw on the TV in 1996.

Damn, but I don't like New Yorkers. Bazooka Jerm and the Dish excepted, of course.