SpecialStories

CD: Digging Through My Closet
Song Description
The story behind Nine Gold Medals has become an urban legend, i.e. a story with some truth that reappears from time to time in different forms. I have received chain email messages that include it.
The story takes place at a Special Olympics track and field competition where in a running [...]

Location: UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Submitted By: Bob Blauschild (coach)
In Hollywood musicals from the 1930’s, there seemed nothing unnatural for students to suddenly stand on their desks and start dancing, or for everyone in a room to break out in song. I’d never seen such a spontaneous production in real life, however, until one awards ceremony [...]

Supporting Actors with a Disability: Leonard Flowers, Eddie Barbanell, John Taylor, and Nicole Bradley
Other Actors with Disabilities: 150 Special Olympians
Short Description
Desperate for cash, a man without an intellectual disability enters a Special Olympics event in the hopes of rigging the result.
Main Cast:
Johnny Knoxville - Steve Barker
Eddie Barbanell - Billy DeVore
Leonard Flowers - Jimmy
John Taylor - [...]