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Nash to make Terry Fox film

Alex Strachan

Canwest News Service
Saturday, July 12, 2008

Steve Nash
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Steve Nash, NBA MVP and graduate of St. Michaels University School, is about to make a film about Terry Fox.

Nash's film will air on ESPN as part of the U.S. cable channel's 30/30 film initiative. The showcase will feature 30 one-hour films by 30 different filmmakers on 30 different subjects from the past 30 years in sports.

Fox, role model to an entire generation of Canadians and a tireless fundraiser for cancer research, died in 1981 after his cancer returned during his Marathon of Hope run across Canada.

Nash said Fox has been an inspiration to him throughout his own life and career.

"I remember as a six-year-old what it felt like to watch him run across our country," Nash told reporters at the summer meeting of the Television Critics Association. "And I especially remember what it felt like the day he had to stop running because he had two tumours in each of his lungs. That feeling of going back to school and being heartbroken is something that stuck with me, and all Canadians. I'd just like to tell his story, and to have the opportunity to do it on film and do it in front of a big audience is exciting to me."

Although Canadians are familiar with Fox through films and TV programs made about him and, more importantly, the annual Terry Fox Run for cancer research every September, Americans are quick to forget, Nash said.

"I aspire to be a filmmaker," Nash said. "This is an exciting opportunity, not only because of the filmmaking aspect, but because I get the opportunity to tell a story that I think in many ways has been forgotten in the States and needs to be retold."

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