mikedallas23
06 Jul 2006, 10:19 AM
David Hershey, onetime Cosmos beat reporter and narrator for the Cosmos documentary that will hit theaters nationwide July 14th, has a great article on the front page of espn.com today:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=cosmos
Some great anecdotes in the article, this bit is about Pele's Cosmos debut:
Toye wasn't about to display his diamond in a rhinestone setting, which is why he was out on the field, pointing to areas of dirt that had not yet been painted green. "Michelangelo had the Sistine Chapel," Toye said, exhaling cigar rings with unalloyed delight. "I have Randall's Island."
The team also liked to hang out at Studio 54:
But even that spectacle was nothing compared with seeing the Black Pearl himself, Pelé — with whom I was collaborating on a memoir at the time — indulging in this late-night bacchanalia. I can still picture him, a blonde Velcroed to each arm, looking like a Roman emperor reclining on a gilded divan with toga-clad damsels feeding him grapes. Our eyes met and he said, with a mischievous laugh, "Not for the book, my friend. Not for the book."
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=cosmos
Some great anecdotes in the article, this bit is about Pele's Cosmos debut:
Toye wasn't about to display his diamond in a rhinestone setting, which is why he was out on the field, pointing to areas of dirt that had not yet been painted green. "Michelangelo had the Sistine Chapel," Toye said, exhaling cigar rings with unalloyed delight. "I have Randall's Island."
The team also liked to hang out at Studio 54:
But even that spectacle was nothing compared with seeing the Black Pearl himself, Pelé — with whom I was collaborating on a memoir at the time — indulging in this late-night bacchanalia. I can still picture him, a blonde Velcroed to each arm, looking like a Roman emperor reclining on a gilded divan with toga-clad damsels feeding him grapes. Our eyes met and he said, with a mischievous laugh, "Not for the book, my friend. Not for the book."