Apex Mountain
Olympic hockey; Winter Olympics; Al Michaels
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- Kurt Russell: no. His apex is the Tango & Cash / Escape from L.A. era leading to Tombstone, where he had the most juice; Escape from New York is his best.
- Gavin O'Connor, no; Olympic hockey, yes; the Winter Olympics, yeah.
- One remark calls it an Apex Mountain in life, much less sports; the subject is not stated explicitly.
- Noah Emmerich: not Beautiful Girls or The Truman Show, maybe The Americans.
- The P&E Agrodome apex is still Rocky 4, where Stallone broke his ribs and filming stopped for two weeks.
- Al Michaels: 1980 no, but 2004 yes, when as the voice of Monday Night Football at the pinnacle of his powers he came back to voice Miracle.
- Jokes about Michaels later working with Collinsworth and Collinsworth calling the 1980 game.
- Sports Illustrated peaked in 1980, not the movie, when the covers meant the most, and this cover arguably was its apex.
- For evil mute Russian sports-movie villains, Drago versus the hockey coach: the movie does not give enough of the coach to make him a villain.