Surviving the World

A Photocomic Education by Dante Shepherd

Lesson #454 - Truth in Audiovisual PResentations

Have you ever seen the movie "Hoosiers"? Great movie, right? The story of a basketball team from one of the smallest schools in Indiana winning their statewide tournament. Based on the true story of a team who accomplished just that in 1954. Only, well, almost all of the details in the movie are different. Kind of depressing to find that out, but that happens all the time, especially in sports movies trying to heighten the tension.

Oh well. Maybe I'll just settle my irritation with a nice completely-true-to-the-facts memoir. Let's try this "A Million Little Pieces", hmmmm?