Barry Bonds and his bronzed marshmallow head will be coming soon to HBO, according to this Variety report. Based on the succinctly titled book Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports, the HBO Films project will be directed and co-written by veteran sports film director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham, Cobb and Tin Cup). His Tin Cup writing partner John Norville will script with him again.
Bonds is accused of taking illegal performance enhancing drugs to boost his game after the McGwire/Sosa home run record season. He eventually set both the single season and all-time home run records. He's currently indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying under oath when he told a grand jury that he didn't take any performance enhancing drugs. He was just trying to make his head as big as everyone kept saying it already was.
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11-30-2007 @ 6:31PM
DeadWrong said...
Maybe they could talk OJ into taking a break from his busy schedule to play Bonds. He has one of those marshmellow heads too and would be perfect for the part.
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