11/14/2023 0 Comments Kerry packer circusPacker’s love for the game leeches through the teak hard exterior on occasion, as does his insecurity in his inability to read well and (inevitably) the abusive dead father he continually sought to please, the engine of his will to win. Packer is portrayed with in all his lonely obsessive ruthlessness by a gimlet-eyed Lachy Hulme, who pulls off the considerable feat of capturing this bullying businessman’s charisma. Cricket went from Cliff Richard to John Lennon in two years.ĭesigned beautifully to render the relentless ugliness of late 70s fashion, haircuts and interior design as a realistic backdrop, the two-part television movie gets plenty right. Drawing on much of the material covered in Gideon Haigh’s majesterial history of World Series Cricket, The Cricket War, Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War is a three hour dramatisation of the events that led to the media mogul’s comprehensive victory over cricket’s ancien regime and the ushering in of just about everything we consider modern in the game. The older I got, the more I respected the men who were vilified in my teenage years. But I was old enough to know that the Australian villain of the piece and his buddies sounded more like the kind of people I was beginning to side with. I didn’t know what “boycott” meant (wasn’t he a player?), nor what the whole thing had to do with the circus – a Christmas Day “treat” I could do without, thank you Mr BBC. I was old enough to know that if something was all over the papers (front pages and back), that this was no idle threat. I was old enough to know that cricket – Test cricket, the glorious game that kept me indoors all summer long with the curtains closed, the better to see the television – might be stopped. 21st century actors playing 20th century cricketers being treated like 19th century cricketers
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