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: I liked it . Skip Van Leeuwen looks great
: for his age and he did a good job explaining
: how tough it was to do the jumps back then.
: All of the people they interviewed in this
: show helped Leigh Montville with his book.
: After the Snake River Canyon jump I don't
: believe Evel had a credibility problem. In
: fact in 1975 Ideal Toys really cranked out
: the toy line. And the Wide World show in
: 1975 showed he was still very popular.
: The short clip of Evel on the Tomorrow Show
: with Tom Snyder was sad. Evel looked like he
: had aged 10 years in a short time. He also
: looked like this when he gave a interview
: with someone from ABC about his haystack
: stunt. I noticed he was slipping a bit when
: I saw him in The Bionic Woman in 77. Doug
: Wilson gave him credit for what he did best,
: promote. Being a Knievel fan in 1977 and 78
: was very strange. My mother wasn't happy
: about him. Then he was gone after 1978 and
: we hardly heard from him again.
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: One interesting point was what Doug Wilson
: said about Evel on this show and also in
: print just a few days ago. He felt something
: bad was going to happen. Either the money or
: something bad would cause his downfall. And
: he was right on when he said Evel built his
: career and then he alone knocked it down.
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: Thanks for all the input. I'm sure it will
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: out on DVD before Christmas.
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: There is an 8mm shot from a helo at SRC that
: shows the jump from above . It is the most
: accurate of what really happened . How he
: went all the way over b4 the chute went to
: FULL Canopy, The as soon as it does the wind
: sends him back . A calm day he would've made
: it .
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: I was approached by the producer of this
: documentary to help him find rare footage.He
: was especially interested in the super 8
: footage of Evel at Snake River.I believe he
: used mostly public domain footage to avoid
: the licensing fees like the WWOS clips would
: have cost.The good news is that EK's family
: is also doing a documentary and are looking
: for rare footage as well.
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: I'd like to hear what you thought. Was it
: factually accurate or did they mix and match
: events? I don't have the Discovery Channel,
: so I'm very curious how it was.
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: It was a very truncated look at his life,
: but was worth seeing. It did look at his
: dark side, and dispelled some of the myths
: (29 day coma claim) while perpetuating
: others (400+ broken bones, something even he
: himself never claimed). Featured interviews
: with a number of people that were very close
: to him (promoters, producers, fellow racers,
: relatives). Some decent unseen (at least to
: me) footage, however there was hardly any
: ABC footage (no footage of Wembly (only
: still photos), no ABC footage of Snake
: River, no Kings Island coverage at all). It
: mostly tried to look at the 10 year pop
: culture tidal wave that he was, and not a
: historical look at the specific jumps.
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