Out of print for more than 30 years, now available for the first time as an eBook, this is the controversial story of John Wooden's first 25 years and first 8 NCAA Championships as UCLA Head Basketball Coach. This is the only book that gives a true picture of the character of John Wooden and the influence of his assistant, Jerry Norman, whose contributions Wooden  ignored and tried to bury.

Compiled with more than 40 hours of interviews with Coach Wooden, learn about the man behind the coach. The players tell their stories in their own words.

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Hal (8/10)

by Tony Medley

Runtime 90 minutes.

NR.

Hal Ashby was an individualistic, one-of-a-kind maverick who produced some memorable films in the 1970s, like Harold and Maude and Being There. He was fortunate to have found his niche then because when the ‘80s rolled around there was no place for a guy like him and his work suffered drastically before he passed on in 1988 due to pancreatic cancer.

In this documentary, director Amy Scott traces his career from his start as a film editor through his Oscar® for editing director Norman Jewison’s classic In the Heat of the Night into his foray as a director himself.

Told with archival films and interviews with many of his actors like Jane Fonda, the Bridges brothers Jeff and Beau, Louis Gossett, Jr., and Roseanna Arquette, along with Judd Apatow, David O. Russell, and Alexander Payne, his life is pretty well dissected with his strengths and weaknesses.

This is a highly engrossing tale of the Hollywood of 40 years ago.