… >near and dear to my heart
Obviously. (ahem)
But Alan’s words about Kurt Russell’s final moment in the film brought tears to my eyes. It was one of the best acting performances of that year – and I never get tired of saying it. PROPS must go to him. Hugely under-rated actor.
I love that little gesture Russell makes to Viktor Tikhonov before leaving the bench. Like “what can I say? I don’t know what the hell just happened, either.”
There was one moment during the game against the Soviets noted in The Boys of Winter (have you read that? Awesome, awesome book), where Doc Nagobads looks over at one of the Soviet players he’d known from when he lived in the USSR. It was in the third period, when these guys were used to just creaming their opponents and could barely believe what was happening. This guy looks at Doc and mouths the words “what is going on?” in Russian and Doc mouths back “ask your coach.”