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'Hoosiers' in reel life

By Jeff Merron
Special to Page 2

Wednesday, March 27, 2002

With March Madness in full swing, Page 2's Closer Look series figured it would be a good time to revisit the Maddest March of them all -- the one in which Milan High School, enrollment 161, won the Indiana state title. The victory, immortalized in the 1986 film, "Hoosiers," had plenty of real-life drama, but, said Angelo Pizzo, the scriptwriter, a great deal of fictionalization was necessary for the Hollywood feature "because their lives were not dramatic enough." So, "Hoosiers" isn't a true st ...

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