Margo Robbie producing a Tonya Harding comedy (movie)

The things is, since she was only convicted of hindering the prosecution, do they risk a lawsuit from Tonya if they depict her as being an active participant in the plotting?
 
casken said:
The things is, since she was only convicted of hindering the prosecution, do they risk a lawsuit from Tonya if they depict her as being an active participant in the plotting?
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There have been so many people who have publicly said she was involved in the plot from its inception, that it's unlikely she could prove any damages, but it's reasonable she could try to sue. My guess is they'll leave it vague so viewers form their own opinions.
 
There is a reasonable case to argue that they can pay her ahead of time for her "life's story" and only use whatever bits they choose. That way she's not profiting off her crime.
My guess is they did, and possibly lowballed her at that.
She got a rough draw in life - not to say that she didn't make bad choices. Tonya had one good thing, an athletic gift, and she never learned how to use it to make her life better. I've known other people who had the opportunity to be upwardly mobile and couldn't/wouldn't do it for reasons that they themselves couldn't even describe. I suspect a lack of life skills (look at her mom/family and she dropped out of high school her sophomore year). Anyway, I don't want to get into an argument of how culpable she was...she did what she did. I hope she gets paid something and can raise her child in peace.
 
She did have a lot of fans. In her early skating days, a young Michelle Kwan said she admired Tonya Harding during an interview. Harding was often criticized for her working class background.

It's kind of sad that skaters who don't come from rich families often get criticized in the sport. Around the 1998 Olympics, Tara Lipinski's mom passed a remark about how the Kwans sold or mortgaged their house to finance Michelle's skating.

dewey said:
Tonya had a lot of fans, particularly in the NW, and a lot of people identified with her "wrong side of the tracks" image more than Nancy's (however inaccurate) "ice princess" image. If Tonya had stayed out of trouble, she could have parlayed the publicity in to plenty of appearances, books, articles, etc. Perhaps she could have become a jumping coach if she did not attend USFSA events. But there were always stories of drugs, violence, and other trouble following her.
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tylersf said:
It's kind of sad that skaters who don't come from rich families often get criticized in the sport. Around the 1998 Olympics, Tara Lipinski's mom passed a remark about how the Kwans sold or mortgaged their house to finance Michelle's skating.
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That's not at all what she said. Given, what she commented on -- that the family lived off of Michelle's earnings -- was pretty rude, but she never criticized the Kwan family's lack of wealth.
 
Winnipeg said:
Maybe this will re-ignite the whack effect in terms of skating popularity. :saint:
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Skating's popularity was on the rise at the time the whack took place. Would the sport have reached such a surreal level of popularity without the whack? Probably not. But much of what we saw during the boom would have happened anyway, albeit on a smaller scale. For example, at the time of the whack there was already a healthy professional skating circuit. The new influx of pro skaters after the 1994 would have kept it going and made it stronger. Some new events would have been added to what was already there. The more popular skaters still would have had their TV specials. But the more excessive, tabloidy coverage probably wouldn't have existed without the whack.

For a new boom to start, the American skating scene needs a female skating star to win a medal at the Olympics, preferably the gold. Then that skater has to stick around and, well, skate. Tara Lipinski, Sarah Hughes, and Michelle Kwan didn't do that.
 
I don't know... Michelle won a medal in 1998 and did stick around. And she won another one in 2002 and also stuck around.

So I'd leave her out of that list or else maybe rethink what it would take to re-start another boom.

I think there was a missed opportunity in the popularity and success of the US dance program at exactly the same time that the US public was obsessed with dancing in various forms. But, even though there were missteps, if that didn't start a new boom, I'm not sure what would.
 
jenniferlyon said:
For a new boom to start, the American skating scene needs a female skating star to win a medal at the Olympics, preferably the gold. Then that skater has to stick around and, well, skate. Tara Lipinski, Sarah Hughes, and Michelle Kwan didn't do that.
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Dorothy Hamill and Kristi Yamaguchi won Olympic gold medals and after winning Worlds turned pro. Their golden success still helped propel the sport.

The U.S. has won gold medals at the last two Olympics -- Evan Lysacek in 2010 and Meryl Davis & Charlie White in 2014 -- but those didn't give the sport a push forward. U.S. TV needs a U.S. lady to win Olympic gold. Maybe then the sport will get a true jump start. The proverbial she -- Wagner, Gold, Chen -- don't need to stick around. They just need to do it.
 
Wagner, Gold & Chen all have personalities that are media ready. And if anyone of them could get an Olympic medal AND with strong marketing could kickstart the sport in the US.

If we had a male US Olympic medalist, it would be nice if we had with one with a personality that works well off the ice. Scott Hamilton, Brian Boitano & Johnny Weir were able to succeed away from the rinks because of their ability to speak on a variety of topics and present to an audience. I have seen Charlie White talking with other skaters off the ice, and he also has the "gift of gab".

pixie cut said:
Dorothy Hamill and Kristi Yamaguchi won Olympic gold medals and after winning Worlds turned pro. Their golden success still helped propel the sport.

The U.S. has won gold medals at the last two Olympics -- Evan Lysacek in 2010 and Meryl Davis & Charlie White in 2014 -- but those didn't give the sport a push forward. U.S. TV needs a U.S. lady to win Olympic gold. Maybe then the sport will get a true jump start. The proverbial she -- Wagner, Gold, Chen -- don't need to stick around. They just need to do it.
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^^ Oh boy. The skating saga that will never die. :drama: ;)

Winnipeg said:
Maybe this will re-ignite the whack effect in terms of skating popularity. :saint:
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Hopefully not. I always felt there are so many other positive reasons for skating to be more popular, if only the people leading the sport had vision and knew how to promote the skaters and the fun things that make it so worthwhile to be a fan. :)
 
Nancy looks great! :cheer2:

What's with the no shirt:rolleyes:

Why practice dance moves on ice? :confused:

Hopefully, one of her competitors won't do a knee whack to win
 
I think this was just a publicity move for the two of them on DWTS. That said, she appears to be in great shape!
 
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