The Second Life of Brian

摘要

In 1971, the american broadcasting Co. taught grown men to cry. abc's Bri-an's Song practically invented the male weepie with its true story of Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) and Brian Piccolo (James Caan), the Chicago Bears running-backs whose friendship ended when Piccolo died young; of cancer, in 1970, It was Love Story with a Y chromosome, plus a deep interracial friendship, and the network now promotes it as "groundbreaking," a "landmark" among TV movies.