In his decade-long tenure at Turner Broadcasting System, a Time Warner subsidiary, Koonin has turned a hodgepodge of wrestling matches, documentaries and Little House on the Prairie reruns into sharply focused comedy (TBS) and drama (TNT) networks.
The film is based on real people, and closely matches what documentaries reveal: the emotional toll a child with autism can take on a family and a marriage.
(When she saw him holding up the match in the documentary "Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?," she demanded that he give it back, and he eventually returned it. Biro claimed to me that an assistant had given him permission to take it).
A special documentary, Match of the Day at 50, is on BBC One on Friday 22 August , 22.35BST (22 50 in Northern Ireland).
Featuring "Match and Marry," a documentary by Suzannah Warlick, about the tradition of matchmaking.
This plotline is compelling despite its overt sentimentality, but for sheer emotional force, it just can't match the movie's documentary moments.
Over the years, there have been many outrageous feuds: with the BBC, to which Ferguson has refused to speak since 2004, over a perceived slight of his son in a documentary; with match officials (on a weekly basis); and with rival managers, particularly Arsène Wenger of the London club Arsenal, who is yin to Ferguson's yang — deeply cultured, professorial and similarly insane to win.
In a BBC Scotland documentary, A Match for Europe, to be broadcast on Monday 5 March, it is shown that there are 40 teams linked to Werder Bremen and that 100 players who have progressed through the club's academy are now playing in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2. Presenter Jim Traynor wonders if this is the model Scottish clubs should adopt, rather than paying transfer fees for players.
They are artists who sacrificed documentary representation to match the dynamism of modernity with their own syncopating or clashing formal rhythms.
It follows the news in February that director Danny Boyle and writer Simon Beaufoy met with King in New York to discuss the project; Boyle had previously been seen at the premiere of a documentary on the match, entitled Battle of the Sexes.
