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2 unusual facts about The Front Runner


The Front Runner

At various times in the following four decades - beginning with Paul Newman in 1975 - a series of major producers and directors, including Frank Perry, Arthur Allan Seidelman, and screenwriter Jeremy Larner for Paul Newman, were involved directly or indirectly in producing such an adaptation.

The difficult, drawn-out process of their coming out as a couple (and Harlan's as an individual) in the intensely homophobic world of amateur athletics takes up most of the book, throughout which the sport - and particularly Billy's determination to qualify for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal - plays as large a part as the characters' homosexuality.



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