Know your role
Big Blue co-owner’s Hollywood ideas for Giants stars
Steve Tisch keeps producing smash hits — from “Forrest Gump” to “Risky Business” to “Dear God” to “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3” to “Knowing to the Super Bowl-champion Giants” to his latest blockbuster “Hope Springs.” (Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell).
So The Rumble asked the charismatic Giants co-owner for the ideal movie roles for Tom Coughlin, Eli Manning, Victor Cruz, Jason Pierre-Paul and Senior VP of Medical Services Ronnie Barnes.
COUGHLIN: “Crime is out of control in New York City,” Tisch begins. “The Police Department is once again gripped in the jaws of corruption. The mayor has to make a big move, and the move he makes is to replace the Police Commissioner. And he brings in Tom Coughlin to clean up corruption in the New York City Police Department. It’s a tough, gritty thriller, and Coughlin is brought in by the mayor because he’s the only guy tough enough with a vision to clean up the NYPD.”
MANNING: “I see Eli as a new character identified in the next sequel to ‘The Hangover,’ ” Tisch says. “Eli is finished playing football, not really sure what he’s going to do with his life. He moves to California, gets an agent, Hollywood falls in love with him. He is immediately cast in ‘The Hangover.’ ”
CRUZ: “ ‘Risky Business’ introduced a 20-year-old Tom Cruise to the world,” Tisch says. “With Victor, I would like to produce Risky Business 2013 where he would play that Tom Cruise-like character. It’s not set in high school, it’s set right after college and we can do the same scenario. Victor’s charming, charismatic, he’s got that unbelievable billion-dollar smile. His parents leave him by himself for the weekend. He turns the family home into a big R-rated party like ‘Risky Business.’ ”
PIERRE-PAUL: “JPP is the next superhero in the next installment of ‘Avengers — Sackman,’ ” Tisch says.
BARNES: “Ronnie I see co-starring with Alec Baldwin in kind of a very funny remake of ‘The Odd Couple,’ ” Tisch says. “I think Ronnie would be this fastidious, sort of proper, controlling, polite neat freak. Baldwin would be the messy Jack Klugman character.”
O’Brien loves Bosox but can’t hate Jeter
Penn State coach Bill O’Brien, of Dorchester, Mass., is by birthright a diehard Red Sox fan. So are many of his childhood friends.
“They hate the Yankees,’’ he said.
But O’Brien is not a blanket Bombers hater. He can’t bring himself to hate the Yankees’ captain.
“The big argument is, I respect Derek Jeter. I mean how can you not respect Derek Jeter? That guy dove into the stands and nearly popped his eyeball out to get a foul ball. The guys, consistent. He’s been playing forever. They’re like, ‘If you hate the Yankees, you’ve got to hate em all.’
Curtis says Hello to Dolly
“Hello Dolly” will be playing tomorrow at Yankee Stadium.
Dolly Diaz, a 9-year-old and soon-to-be fourth grader at Harlem RBI’s Dream Charter School, has been selected to participate in the Steiner Sports and New York Yankees fragrance hitting clinic conducted at noon by Curtis Granderson.
Here’s how it happened for Dolly: Tom Butkiewicz, CEO of the Cloudbreak Group, was at a Yankees event and ran into Rich Berlin, executive director at Harlem RBI. Berlin was talking about his program and raving about Dolly’s academic and athletic exploits as pitcher for the Harlem RBI Pirates. Butkiewicz told Berlin he would love for Dolly, a Yankees fan, to meet Granderson, a brand ambassador for Yankees fragrance.
Her mother, Nancy Garcia, is thrilled for Dolly.
“She’s a beautiful baby,”she said.
And what was Dolly’s reaction when she learned from her father Friday that she was the lucky winner?
“Beauitiful!” she said.
Lavin & pals dine with Barclays CEO
Sightings: St. John’s coach Steve Lavin, his special assistant Gene Keady and former St. John’s star Tarik Turner, now the analyst on the Red Storm radio network, dining with Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark at Campagnola on First Avenue. The Johnnies will play one game at Barclays this season and likely will make at least one annual appearance at the new basketball cathedral in Brooklyn. … Insurance man to the stars Rich “Big Daddy” Salgado, president of Coastal Advisors, LLC, raving about the nova scotia lox and tuna at Bagels and Co. in the Bay Terrace Shopping Center in Bayside.
Mets continue legacy of honoring 9/11 victims
Over a decade ago, they were the torchbearers who helped the city heal from the 9/11 attacks. Mets manager Bobby Valentine and players Todd Zeile, Robin Ventura, Johnny Franco, Mike Piazza and Al Leiter made numerous visits to firehouses, police stations and Ground Zero.
As the 11th anniversary of September 11th approaches, that legacy has not been forgotten. David Wright, Bobby Parnell, Johan Santana, Dillon Gee and Mike Baxter continue to do all they can to keep alive the memory of the 2,819 people who died that fateful day.
In addition to continuing the police and firehouse visits, the Mets organization works hand and hand with Tuesday’s Children, an organization which cares for the more than 3,000 kids who lost a parent on 9/11. During the season, Mets players have monthly visits at Citi Field with the kids from Tuesday’s Children.
“Last year there was a lot of attention brought to 9/11 because it was the 10th anniversary,” said Amy Wright of Tuesday’s Children.” But what makes the Mets organization so special is that they have been with us from the beginning and they never stop giving back.”
“ I make it a point to go to all of the meet-and-greets with these kids,” said Parnell, whose father and brother are firemen. “You can still see the hurt in their eyes. We can’t ever forget what happened.”
Abbott big fan of Pistorius
SiriusXM’s Summer Games Radio channel host Lance Medow spoke this week with former pitcher and 1998 Olympic gold medal winner Jim Abbott, who has inspired millions for his remarkable success at the highest levels of his game despite being born without a right hand, about South African runner Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee who successfully fought for the right to compete in the Olympic Games.
“I’m a big fan of Oscar Pistorius,” Abbott said. “I watched him run [Monday] night and, you know, I got a little choked up, I have to tell you. I was so moved by his story and his effort and what it took for him to get there, the things he overcame physically, and the opposition that he faced to get to the Olympics.
“I do think that we have to be careful, it has to be a level playing field, but it seemed to me that he was fairly placed within where he was at. And it inspired the world. It inspired people all over this world to believe in what is possible. It brought me to the edge of my seat, and I’m sure millions of other people, and I think it’s one of the greatest stories to come out of London this summer.”