SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 15 : DEVERS STORY TO GO HOLLYWOOD
The dramatic story of Gail Devers’ recovery from the serious effects of Graves’ disease to become the world’s fastest woman will be coming soon to a theater or television channel near you.
Devers’ coach, Bob Kersee, said Saturday that the 100-meter gold medalist had received four offers for television movies of the week and two feature films.
Even before she left Los Angeles for the Games, Devers was “taking meetings.”
Kersee said Bill Cosby was helping guide them though the morass of Hollywood offers.
“We don’t want it to be her life story,” Kersee said. “We want it to be a story of overcoming obstacles. We don’t want to put a period on Gail’s life yet.”
Kersee added that he wants himself to be played in the movie by Louis Gossett Jr. or Denzel Washington.
* This a daily roundup of Olympic-related items from reporters in Barcelona from the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and Baltimore Sun, all Times-Mirror newspapers.
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