Bloom Archives
Angelo Pizzo
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L. Jon Wertheim: From BHSN to 60 Minutes & Sports Illustrated
While he hasn’t lived in Bloomington since leaving for college in 1989, L. Jon Wertheim says he feels an attachment to his hometown, a…
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50 Famous IU Alumni: P–S
Politician Mike Pence, screenwriter Angelo Pizzo, war correspondent Ernie Pyle, politician Dan Quayle, puzzlemaster Will Shortz, Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh, and Olympic swimmer Mark…
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The Life of Bob Hammel In a Movie and a Memoir
The subject of the upcoming WTIU and Naptown Media documentary Bob Hammel & Bloomington: A 50-Year Love Affair prefers asking questions to answering them.…
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Bloom’s Greatest Hits: How True Was ‘Breaking Away’?
As part of Bloom’s Greatest Hits and in anticipation of this season’s Little 500 bicycle race, we look back at this story published in…
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100 Reasons to Love Bloomington (August Cover Story)
BY CARMEN SIERING WITH BARB BERGGOETZ & ELISABETH ANDREWS, ILLUSTRATIONS BY MIKE CAGLE It’s a wonderful town. It was no easy task honing down the…
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Filmworks: Maker of Those IU Super-Success Story Promos
BY KATHY JONAS In the time it takes to eat an apple or brew a cup of coffee, Jo Throckmorton, maker of TV commercials,…
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Will Angelo Pizzo Have Another Hit Movie? ‘My All American’ Scoring Big in Previews (Photo Gallery)
BY MIKE LEONARD Movie industry analysts say that despite a few notable exceptions, sports movies are rarely successful, and Angelo Pizzo already has two…
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Cover Story: Buddies: Filmmakers Angelo Pizzo and David Anspaugh
BY MIKE LEONARD, PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHANNON ZAHNLE David Anspaugh thinks for a moment and then recalls the first time he encountered Angelo Pizzo nearly…
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How True Was ‘Breaking Away’?
BY MIKE LEONARD Late last summer, a British film reviewer professed his love for Breaking Away, the Academy Award-winning 1979 movie set in Bloomington…