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The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe.

Kate Buford, author of 'Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe', joins Joe to recount the extraordinary story of an Olympian, American Football pioneer, baseball player, and movie star.

A panel of special guests joins host Jamey DuVall as he explores the majority of films released in the U.S. during March of 1970. Guests include legendary musician and composer Don Randi, assistant director Harvey Laidman, film professors Ramzi Fawaz, David Gerstner and Matt Bell, authors Stephen Prince (Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies), Garner Simmons (Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage), David Weddle (If They Move...Kill 'Em!: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah), Chris Nashawaty (Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman: King of the B Movie), Pawel Aleksandrowicz (The Cinematography of Roger Corman), Beverly Gray (Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches and Driller Killers), Jan Herman (A Talent for Trouble: The Life of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler), Gabriel Miller (William Wyler: The Life and Films of Hollywood’s Most Celebrated Director), Kate Buford (Burt Lancaster: An American Life), Nik Havert (The Golden Age of Disaster Cinema), Nat Segaloff (Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God), Mary Elizabeth Strunk (Wanted Women), and Daniel Kremer (Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films), producer/director Dale Bell, cinematographers Richard Pearce and Malcolm Hart, professor Alan Brown, and Woodstock attendees Albert Froment and Mike Brinn.  For more information and advanced access to future episodes and uncut interviews, visit https://my.captivate.fm/MovieGeekYearbook.com (MovieGeekYearbook.com). Support this podcast

A panel of special guests joins host Jamey DuVall as he explores the majority of films released in the U.S. during March of 1970. Guests include legendary musician and composer Don Randi, assistant director Harvey Laidman, film professors Ramzi Fawaz, David Gerstner and Matt Bell, authors Stephen Prince (Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies), Garner Simmons (Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage), David Weddle (If They Move...Kill 'Em!: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah), Chris Nashawaty (Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman: King of the B Movie), Pawel Aleksandrowicz (The Cinematography of Roger Corman), Beverly Gray (Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches and Driller Killers), Jan Herman (A Talent for Trouble: The Life of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler), Gabriel Miller (William Wyler: The Life and Films of Hollywood’s Most Celebrated Director), Kate Buford (Burt Lancaster: An American Life), Nik Havert (The Golden Age of Disaster Cinema), Nat Segaloff (Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God), Mary Elizabeth Strunk (Wanted Women), and Daniel Kremer (Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films), producer/director Dale Bell, cinematographer Malcolm Hart, professor Alan Brown, and Woodstock attendees Albert Froment and Mike Brinn.  For more information and advanced access to future episodes and uncut interviews, visit https://my.captivate.fm/MovieGeekYearbook.com (MovieGeekYearbook.com). Support this podcast

A panel of special guests joins host Jamey DuVall as he explores the majority of films released in the U.S. during March of 1970. Guests include legendary musician and composer Don Randi, assistant director Harvey Laidman, film professors Ramzi Fawaz, David Gerstner and Matt Bell, authors Stephen Prince (Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies), Garner Simmons (Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage), David Weddle (If They Move...Kill 'Em!: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah), Chris Nashawaty (Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman: King of the B Movie), Pawel Aleksandrowicz (The Cinematography of Roger Corman), Beverly Gray (Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches and Driller Killers), Jan Herman (A Talent for Trouble: The Life of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler), Gabriel Miller (William Wyler: The Life and Films of Hollywood’s Most Celebrated Director), Kate Buford (Burt Lancaster: An American Life), Nik Havert (The Golden Age of Disaster Cinema), Nat Segaloff (Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God), Mary Elizabeth Strunk (Wanted Women), and Daniel Kremer (Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films), producer/director Dale Bell, cinematographers Richard Pearce and Malcolm Hart, professor Alan Brown, and Woodstock attendees Albert Froment and Mike Brinn.  For more information and advanced access to future episodes and uncut interviews, visit MovieGeekYearbook.com (https://my.captivate.fm/MovieGeekYearbook.com). Support this podcast

The Movie Geeks speak with author Kate Buford about her wonderful biography Burt Lancaster: An American Life. Support this podcast

The Movie Geeks speak with author Kate Buford about her wonderful biography Burt Lancaster: An American Life. Support this podcast

Russ Linden and Kate Buford   document.write(''); We welcomed back Kate Buford, award-winning author of Burt Lancaster's life story, a New York Times best-seller. She also wrote the important award-winning biography of Jim Thorpe, Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe.… Read More

Kate Buford and Lauren Mims  document.write(''); We welcome back Educational Psychologist Dr. Lauren Mims to discuss Black Girl Magic and her plans to turn Michelle Obama's book Becoming into a curriculum to empower Black girls, and much more.… Read More

Special Guests: Justin Bozung, Kate Buford, Preston Neal JonesGuest Co-Hosts: Rob St. Mary, Elric KaneThe 1968 film by Frank and Eleanor Perry, The Swimmer (based on the John Cheever short story of the same name), stars Burt Lancaster as Ned Merrill, a Connecticut executive who decides to head back home by swimming through the pools of his neighbors, a "river" which he names "Lucinda" after his wife. Along the way, Ned is met with drinks, laughs, reminders of his affairs that went sour, and maybe even reminders that what he pretends to be may be no more.Elric Kane and co-host emeritus Rob St. Mary join Mike to discuss the trouble production and ground-breaking ideas of The Swimmer.Links:Buy The Swimmer on Blu-RayRead The Swimmer: A prophetic modernist fable set in a fading Eden by Michael AtkinsonRead An Analysis of "The Swimmer" by John Cheever by Rebekah NydamWatch Man Fed Up with Commute Swims to WorkRead The Swimmer by John Cheever 

On this episode of The Spark : Martha talks with biographer Kate Buford about her new adventure into telling the stories of the worthy and the un-famous.

Book: Native American Son, The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim ThorpeAuthor:Kate BufordContact:Visit Kate at her website, check out her blog, and follow her on twitter at katebuford.  Her book can be purchased on Amazon.Conversation:Total run time: 52:010:01 - Introduction and short background on Jim2:38 -  Kate joins in and we talk about Jim's early life10:14 - the Carlisle Indian School18:00 - Jim is stripped of his 1912 Olympic gold medals24:27 - pro football and baseball31:07 - Jim's personality38:04 - the burial controversy51:00 - epilogueYour browser does not support this audio The embedded player works best in Google Chrome.  You can also download the mp3 by clicking here, and you can also listen in iTunes by clicking either of the following podcast links (Olympic Legends / Outstanding Authors).Additional Links:An episode of Native America Calling where the Jim Thorpe burial controversy is discussed. 

Book: Native American Son, The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim ThorpeAuthor:Kate BufordContact:Visit Kate at her website, check out her blog, and follow her on twitter at katebuford.  Her book can be purchased on Amazon.Conversation:Total run time: 52:010:01 - Introduction and short background on Jim2:38 -  Kate joins in and we talk about Jim's early life10:14 - the Carlisle Indian School18:00 - Jim is stripped of his 1912 Olympic gold medals24:27 - pro football and baseball31:07 - Jim's personality38:04 - the burial controversy51:00 - epilogueYour browser does not support this audio The embedded player works best in Google Chrome.  You can also download the mp3 by clicking here, and you can also listen in iTunes by clicking either of the following podcast links (Olympic Legends / Outstanding Authors).Additional Links:An episode of Native America Calling where the Jim Thorpe burial controversy is discussed. 

If you watched the U.S. broadcast of the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, you may have heard Matt Lauer and Bob Costas mention Jim Thorpe during Sweden’s entrance. Thorpe, arguably the best all-around athlete in U.S. history, won Olympic gold in both the pentathlon and the decathlon in the... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you watched the U.S. broadcast of the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, you may have heard Matt Lauer and Bob Costas mention Jim Thorpe during Sweden’s entrance. Thorpe, arguably the best all-around athlete in U.S. history, won Olympic gold in both the pentathlon and the decathlon in the Stockholm 1912 games. But his victory was marred by a controversial International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruling that stripped him of his medals six months later. In Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe (Bison Books, 2012), the first comprehensive biography of Thorpe, biographer Kate Buford explores how Thorpe’s Native American heritage shaped his life, but also the impact Thorpe himself had upon American sports. Ultimately, he was the country’s first celebrity athlete, excelling at both baseball and football. His life was memorialized in a 1951 film and, in 1963, Thorpe was among the charter class inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Despite his other successes, the revocation of Jim Thorpe’s medals remains a source of contention for his admirers, Buford among them.In 1982, the IOC approved the reinstatement of Thorpe’s medals and during London 2012, the Hammersmith tube station has been temporarily renamed in Thorpe’s honor. But, despite public outcry, the IOC still refuses to enter Thorpe’s scores into the official record of Olympic events. As Buford writes: “A gentle person, intelligent and funny, with many flaws, Jim Thorpe was not a complicated man. But what happened to him was.”   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you watched the U.S. broadcast of the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, you may have heard Matt Lauer and Bob Costas mention Jim Thorpe during Sweden’s entrance. Thorpe, arguably the best all-around athlete in U.S. history, won Olympic gold in both the pentathlon and the decathlon in the Stockholm 1912 games. But his victory was marred by a controversial International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruling that stripped him of his medals six months later. In Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe (Bison Books, 2012), the first comprehensive biography of Thorpe, biographer Kate Buford explores how Thorpe’s Native American heritage shaped his life, but also the impact Thorpe himself had upon American sports. Ultimately, he was the country’s first celebrity athlete, excelling at both baseball and football. His life was memorialized in a 1951 film and, in 1963, Thorpe was among the charter class inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Despite his other successes, the revocation of Jim Thorpe’s medals remains a source of contention for his admirers, Buford among them.In 1982, the IOC approved the reinstatement of Thorpe’s medals and during London 2012, the Hammersmith tube station has been temporarily renamed in Thorpe’s honor. But, despite public outcry, the IOC still refuses to enter Thorpe’s scores into the official record of Olympic events. As Buford writes: “A gentle person, intelligent and funny, with many flaws, Jim Thorpe was not a complicated man. But what happened to him was.”   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you watched the U.S. broadcast of the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, you may have heard Matt Lauer and Bob Costas mention Jim Thorpe during Sweden’s entrance. Thorpe, arguably the best all-around athlete in U.S. history, won Olympic gold in both the pentathlon and the decathlon in the Stockholm 1912 games. But his victory was marred by a controversial International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruling that stripped him of his medals six months later. In Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe (Bison Books, 2012), the first comprehensive biography of Thorpe, biographer Kate Buford explores how Thorpe’s Native American heritage shaped his life, but also the impact Thorpe himself had upon American sports. Ultimately, he was the country’s first celebrity athlete, excelling at both baseball and football. His life was memorialized in a 1951 film and, in 1963, Thorpe was among the charter class inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Despite his other successes, the revocation of Jim Thorpe’s medals remains a source of contention for his admirers, Buford among them.In 1982, the IOC approved the reinstatement of Thorpe’s medals and during London 2012, the Hammersmith tube station has been temporarily renamed in Thorpe’s honor. But, despite public outcry, the IOC still refuses to enter Thorpe’s scores into the official record of Olympic events. As Buford writes: “A gentle person, intelligent and funny, with many flaws, Jim Thorpe was not a complicated man. But what happened to him was.”   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you watched the U.S. broadcast of the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, you may have heard Matt Lauer and Bob Costas mention Jim Thorpe during Sweden’s entrance. Thorpe, arguably the best all-around athlete in U.S. history, won Olympic gold in both the pentathlon and the decathlon in the Stockholm 1912 games. But his victory was marred by a controversial International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruling that stripped him of his medals six months later. In Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe (Bison Books, 2012), the first comprehensive biography of Thorpe, biographer Kate Buford explores how Thorpe’s Native American heritage shaped his life, but also the impact Thorpe himself had upon American sports. Ultimately, he was the country’s first celebrity athlete, excelling at both baseball and football. His life was memorialized in a 1951 film and, in 1963, Thorpe was among the charter class inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Despite his other successes, the revocation of Jim Thorpe’s medals remains a source of contention for his admirers, Buford among them.In 1982, the IOC approved the reinstatement of Thorpe’s medals and during London 2012, the Hammersmith tube station has been temporarily renamed in Thorpe’s honor. But, despite public outcry, the IOC still refuses to enter Thorpe’s scores into the official record of Olympic events. As Buford writes: “A gentle person, intelligent and funny, with many flaws, Jim Thorpe was not a complicated man. But what happened to him was.”   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you watched the U.S. broadcast of the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, you may have heard Matt Lauer and Bob Costas mention Jim Thorpe during Sweden’s entrance. Thorpe, arguably the best all-around athlete in U.S. history, won Olympic gold in both the pentathlon and the decathlon in the Stockholm 1912 games. But his victory was marred by a controversial International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruling that stripped him of his medals six months later. In Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe (Bison Books, 2012), the first comprehensive biography of Thorpe, biographer Kate Buford explores how Thorpe’s Native American heritage shaped his life, but also the impact Thorpe himself had upon American sports. Ultimately, he was the country’s first celebrity athlete, excelling at both baseball and football. His life was memorialized in a 1951 film and, in 1963, Thorpe was among the charter class inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Despite his other successes, the revocation of Jim Thorpe’s medals remains a source of contention for his admirers, Buford among them.In 1982, the IOC approved the reinstatement of Thorpe’s medals and during London 2012, the Hammersmith tube station has been temporarily renamed in Thorpe’s honor. But, despite public outcry, the IOC still refuses to enter Thorpe’s scores into the official record of Olympic events. As Buford writes: “A gentle person, intelligent and funny, with many flaws, Jim Thorpe was not a complicated man. But what happened to him was.”   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1912, the Native American athlete, Jim Thorpe, stunned the world by winning both the decathlon and pentathlon at the Stockholm Olympics.Less than a year later, Thorpe was stripped of the medals in controversial circumstances. After struggling to make a living as a Hollywood extra, he ended up dying in poverty in a trailer park.Richard Fleming tells Jim Thorpe's incredible story, with contributions from his biographer, Kate Buford.PHOTO: Jim Thorpe, the track athelete. Courtesy of Cumberland County Historical Society.