Breaking Away

The "Cutters" team that has been in the Little 500 for years has not, in fact, been a team manned by townies for quite some time. I'm not up on the history of the Little 500 to know if there ever were townies in the race or if it's all just movie folklore, but the "Cutters" of recent years have been a dorm team. When I was at IU (late 80s/early 90s), I think they were from Wright Quad. Not sure if that's still the case, but I don't know if townies could even enter the race.

Also interesting is that the track used for the race in the movie has been gone for a long, long time. It's now a landscaped, open area called the Arboretum that's used to hang out, study, nap, or just to get from one side of campus to the other. They still have some big limestone gates that I think may be from the old stadium, but the bike race moved to the soccer stadium a long time ago.

Additional trivia: Steve Tesich, who wrote the screenplay, was a member of my dad's fraternity. The opera-loving character was based on one of their other frat brothers, Dave Blase, who was a fan of Prussian (not Italian) culture and opera; he really did ride almost 100% of one of the races, and won as part of the Phi Kappa Psi team. He can be seen in the movie, at the end -- he's one of the announcers on the podium, congratulating the winners, in a red jacket. I went to high school with his daughter, who is now an amazingly talented opera singer.

The Cutters were from Wright when I was in school there (early 90s)...and I don't think "townies" are allowed to enter the race. I wonder whether any have tried to enter, in recent years.

It occurs to me that the "Cutters" t-shirt would be a fun one to get from http://www.neighborhoodies.com.

In most of the big cities and state capitals ... if a building is faced with Limestone ... it's faced with Indiana Limestone. Although the trend to use concrete has reduced the use of the limestone facing material the industry still operates about 9 quarries and is good for 26 million in sales each year.

Steph, two of my all time favorite movies that take place in Indiana that aren't about sports are a "Christmas Story" and "Going all the Way" if you haven't seen them they are quite good and entertaining.

where can i get this movie from. im located in omaha nebraska

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