I have enjoyed reading this thread immensely! I still think Ice Castles is way more realistic, though than that awful Ice Princess movie.

Anyway, i think i have injured myself more from other falls other than running into the boards. I wish i could tell people the reason i fell was falling on a triple!

I'm a geek - I liked Ice Princess. I think the scifi fan in me is well-trained in suspending disbelief, lol.

I remember HATING Robby Benson's voice in Ice Castles and wishing they had cast someone else. I also bought the album, but somehow the music was better on screen than on ice.

The best part of Blades of Glory was going to see it with a few of the ladies from this board...and the silly waiter afterwards that Renetale kept calling "Scott (Hamilton)" lol.

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The grossest scene of the original IC was when Nick (Benson) was on the pay phone to Lexie. He was standing there in his underwear. Yuck.

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I remember that scene. They could have saved it by having him wear Underoos or something silly. Still, he really wasn't what you would call "eye candy."

I was really surprised to find out that he played the Beast in the Disney movie, Beauty and the Beast. I guess they told him to do that husky voice for Ice Castles, but it wasn't sexy, it was sickly, lol.

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I thought of this thread yesterday, while reading a column in the paper that critiqued a new performing arts center. She pointed out the good things this venue did to make the center handicap-accessible and friendly.

She went on to say that, since the parking was located in a garage a block or so away, it would be nice if they added a drop-off area in front of the building. I thought about it and agreed with her. My husband had dropped me off there last month with the kids right in front of the building, but it wasn't marked as a drop-off zone. It took him several minutes to park the car and meet us in the lobby.

The author went on to say they should add a canopy to this drop off zone. It gave me this creepy feeling that she had gone too far. In this recession, this new facility's struggling to put bottoms in seats. I didn't even finish the article after reading that paragraph. The sense of "ask for the stars, settle for the moon" just overwhelmed me. But, the article did make me think about how much better people facing challenges have it today vs. 25 years ago.

I wonder if they'll have to change the premise of "Ice Castles" to bring the movie up to date? If the story were to happen in real-life today, the Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired would be able to provide support for the skater. If the skating organizations tried to prevent her from entering, fifteen lawyers would come out the woodwork with a class-action lawsuit. There would be special assistance provided to help her participate, such as a short, private warmup and definitely no throwies on the ice, lol.

It might be interesting to see what they do with the visually impaired skater storyline.

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Back in the days RB was considered a teen idol.

Yep! My best friend had a total crush on him. She dragged me to "One on One" (a basketball movie he starred in) after we saw Ice Castles. . . or maybe it was before. . .

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my sister had a crush on him too!

I can't name any one skating movie that doesn't suspend belief, from Ice Castles to Blades of Glory to Ice Princess to Cutting Edge.

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Wang chung!

To be a teen idol you didn't need a great body, just a cute face, which he has/had.

Speaking of which, Donny Osmond is still handsome. I saw a proposed pilot episode of an Idol-wannabe show hosted by Donny & Marie. Cheesy and sentimental, but he was as cute as ever.

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Donny Osmond is HOT. H-O-T. OMG.

THAT show I'd watch!

I've seen Ice Castles at least a thousand times and I've really watched the scene where she falls. If you smack the back of your head in the right place with enough force, you can kill yourself (do irreparable damage to your brain stem, and it's curtains - your brain stem controls respirations, blood pressure, and heart rate, so without it, you can't live) - so it's really NOT farfetched that she could fall, strike her head on metal furniture (or even the ice), and lose her vision.

What happens is your head stops moving, but your brain (which isn't solid, but soft) keeps moving - and slams into your skull at the exact same speed your head was moving before it stopped (good old physics working against you). If the damage occurred to the occipital lobe (which is where sight is processed) - then you're blind. (You can even have an injury where your EYES can see, but because your brain can't interpret what you see due to injury, you're blind.) She could also have done damage to her optic nerve, which then completely prevents information from even reaching your brain in the first place.

On a simpler level, she could have sustained a bleed in the area - and blindness was the result.

Incidentally (can you tell I love neuro?), you can sustain such an injury WITHOUT an impact - all you need is that sudden stop. This is why someone in a car wreck can sustain a head injury without their head hitting the dashboard. Even just slamming forward and slamming back can damage your brain - you're going fifty miles an hour, slam into someone, and your head snaps back. Your head snaps back BEFORE your brain stops moving forward (your head is now going fifty miles an hour in the OPPOSITE direction, while your brain is still going fifty miles an hour going FORWARD, so to speak) - so your brain hits your skull and the result can be just as traumatic.

Sorry - I ran off a bit there. . .

Okay. I'll show my age and IC-geekiness again. According to the novelization, the rink was at the home of the host of the sectional party. The host supposedly owned a boot company. He was supposedly one of Lexie's sponsors. Lexie "borrowed" a pair of boots from the closet and skated on his rink when no one was looking b/c she was upset about Nick seeing her kissing Brian, the TV man.

She was trying a 3axel in unknown boots that supposedly did not fit well. That was stupid. In the movie, she does not prep her axel by skating backward then stepping forward for the take-off. She just skates forward and takes off. That is possible, but no one does it. Maybe for a single. In the movie, the jump is never identified as a 3axel only as a "triple". However, the forward take-off gives away what it is supposed to be.

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