Lindgren said he was glad to find some of the running philosophy he'd discussed with Prefontaine in the film. Victoria recalled that, just as he did for Marckx in the story, Prefontaine offered her running shoes. They met before Prefontaine began his featured romance with Mary Marckx (Monica Potter) in the movie. She said she knew that a lot of the men on campus did not like him because he wore his self-confidence on his sleeve. But he enjoyed talking about himself and it was obvious his life revolved around running." "He was a very sweet, old-fashioned type of guy who would bring me flowers," she said. Victoria said Prefontaine, true to the brash portrayal by Billy Crudup in the movie, walked up to her his first year on the Oregon campus, introduced himself and proceeded to regale her about himself. Two acquaintances of Prefontaine who were in town but didn't attend that night were American female distance racing legend Mary Decker Slaney, who said she would've become too emotional watching her old friend come back to life, and local chiropractor Verna Victoria. In the audience at the sneak were 1972 American Olympic marathon gold medalist Frank Shorter, the last man to speak to Prefontaine the night he died local resident Gerry Lindgren, international distance star of the 1960s and another local resident, former NFL star Russ Francis, an Oregon track teammate of Prefontaine.
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The movie played in selected cities last fall but played only once here at an invitation-only sneak in December 1997 during Honolulu Marathon weekend.īilly Crudup and Monica Potter star as Steve PrefontaineĪnd Mary Marckx in "Without Limits." The real Prefontaine, He conceived the film while he was working on a book about Prefontaine's University of Oregon track coach, Bill Bowerman, in the late 1980s. "It's a shame that it didn't play in Hawaii where there's a such a running community," said Moore, also an executive producer on the project. Moore collaborated with Robert Towne ("Chinatown") in writing the script for the 1998 feature film "Without Limits," which was released by Warner Brothers last week on video. When Prefontaine's MG convertible overturned in the hills of East Eugene, Ore., May 30, 1975, he held every American record from 2,000 meters to 10,000 meters. And he knew that the cockiness of the man was not always easy to take.īut Moore, Prefontaine's teammate at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, saw a compelling story in both the character and the brief career of the cult hero athlete dubbed the "James Dean of running." That's what Lanikai resident Kenny Moore remembers about Steve Prefontaine. He said he could endure more pain than anybody he ever met, and that if a race came down to sheer guts, he was the only one who could win it.
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