I think some people will like it and find it endearing and charming, listening to a granddaughter who loves her grandfather and not a professional narrator. “And then they came to me and I was like: Are you insane? I’m not John Facenda from NFL Films, the deep, dramatic voice. And then I started doing my interviews and they just liked the way I told stories and how emotional I got when I was telling them,” she said. “They had thought it was going to be a Billy Crystal or Bob Costas-type person. Lindsay wound up becoming the movie's executive producer and the narrator. The melodramas of the Berra family were covered: the cocaine addiction of son Dale, a major leaguer caught up in the 1985 Pittsburgh drug trials and Yogi's firing as Yankees manager by George Steinbrenner 16 games into the 1985 season and 14-year exile until peace was negotiated by broadcaster Suzyn Waldman. Lindsay regrets there was no space in the movie for Phil Rizzuto or Whitey Ford. "There's no definitive proof that he ever originated that exact phrase, but it didn't matter because as with every other aspect of his life, the myth outgrew the facts,” Lindsay says in her narration. When Berra was managing the Mets during the 1973 NL East race, he said: “You're not out of it until it's mathematical.” That evolved to the famous phrase attributed to Berra, used in the movie's title. Mullin lists them alongside famous quotes from Shakespeare, Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill and Plato and others, including: Albert Einstein's “The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion” with “It's déjà vu all over again ” and Robert Frost's “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by” with “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Sections are broken up with phrases Berra was known for, which he may or may not have actually said. 285 with 358 homers and 1,430 RBIs and setting World Series records with 71 hits and 10 titles - plus three more rings as a coach.īut his post-playing work as a TV pitchman and quipster defined his image. Berra won three MVPs and finished among the top four in seven straight votes from 1950-56, behind only Mike Trout's eight from 2012-19. Yogi was an 18-time All-Star - trailing only Aaron, Mays, Stan Musial, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams and Cal Ripken Jr. Sobiloff called Sean Mullin, a director he worked with on the 2014 scripted film “Amira & Sam." Mullin met with Berra's sons that fall, got permission and raised the financing. ![]() He asked Yogi's sons if he could make a documentary about their dad. Producer Peter Sobiloff attended the Yogi Berra Museum Celebrity Golf Classic on June 11, 2018, a day after he saw “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” the documentary on Fred Rogers. Distribution expands to additional markets on May 19. The Sony Pictures Classics film premiered last June at the Tribeca Festival and opens in theaters in the New York tri-state area and Los Angeles on Friday, which would have been Berra's 98th birthday. “It Ain’t Over,” a 98-minute documentary on Yogi Berra's life, aims to elevate his playing career alongside his persona as a cultural icon. But you’ve seen him on television your whole life, right? So I think it’s a recency bias.” ![]() “If you’re under 50 years old, you have no recollection of grandpa as a player at all. ![]() “He played his last game on May 9, 1965, and then spent nearly 50 years making commercials and coaching and saying funny things on television,” she said. NEW YORK - Lindsay Berra wanted grandpa Yogi remembered as a constant in Most Valuable Player voting before he was a regular in “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.”
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