Black Sunday
Black Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the President of the United States in attendance.
What a prefect day to mention the 1977 movie Black Sunday ─ Super Bowl Sunday with the Kansas City Chiefs playing the San Francisco 49ers in Miami. Both today’s Super Bowl & the movie’s Super Bowl are being played in Miami, although the one in the movie is being played in the Orange Bowl & not Joe Robie Stadium or whatever it’s called today. And Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys are playing in the one from the movie.
Between 1972 & 1978, I went to a lotta games in the Orange Bowl ─ the University of Miami & the Miami Dolphins. There weren’t many parking lots close to the Orange Bowl so you paid $5 to park in someone’s front yard. The University of Miami’s teams were so bad back then that you got a free ticket for every $20 of groceries you bought at Winn Dixie. So I took my kids to a lotta games.
On the other hand the Dolphins went undefeated in 1972 & won the Super Bowl, and they won the Super Bowl the following year as well.
Getting back to the movie, it stars Robert Shaw ─ you might remember him from Jaws ─ along with Bruce Dern & Marthe Keller.
And I just learned today that the movie was adapted from Thomas Harris 1975 novel Black Sunday. That was his first book but he went on to write The Silence of the Lambs and several others
I later wrote a story for True Detective about serial killer Gary Heidnik. Thomas Harris got the inspiration for the scene where the fiend Jame Gumb kidnaps the senator’s daughter & confines her to the pit in his basement. I’ll write about that story soon.
As for today I’m all-in on the 49ers.
I’m America’s Best Crime Writer – Barry Bowe – & I approve this message.
My first book – Born to Be Wild – published in 1992 & still selling on Amazon & Kindle. It’s a true story about certain members of the Warlocks motorcycle gang.
The story took 21 years to play out – many twists & turns – an amalgam of Sons of Anarchy & Breaking Bad – but these outlaw bikers make the Sons look like Cub Scouts.
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