"Oh," sighed a colleague, when told they were going to remake "Brian's Song." "Oh, no." It was not the lament of a movie buff who automatically rejects the idea of refilming a classic. It was the ...

“Team Mates and friends till the end,” tweeted Billy Dee Williams, who co-starred with Caan in the 1971 TV-movie classic Brian’s Song. “RIP Jimmy.” Williams included what appears to be a recent photo ...

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For Chicago Bears fans, there’s no movie that quite hits you in the feelings like Brian’s Song, which tells the story of the friendship between Hall of Famer Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo. James Caan, ...

James Caan, the curly-haired tough guy known to movie fans as the hotheaded Sonny Corleone of "The Godfather" and to television audiences as both the dying football player in the classic weeper "Brian ...

You watched the movie as a kid. So did we and ... yep, cried. Truth be told, we might still today. Because to a lot of older NFL fans, Brian's Song was one of the first football movies of their ...

Billy and James have a longstanding friendship that spans decades. The two originally worked on the 1971’s Brian’s Song, which is a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week. The film told the emotional story of ...

Al Silverman, a magazine editor and publishing executive who collaborated with Chicago Bears halfback Gale Sayers on an autobiography that was adapted into “Brian’s Song,” the popular 1971 television ...

Refresh for updates… Hollywood is mourning the loss of one of its greatest: James Caan is being remembered today as one of the best actors of his generation. “Team Mates and friends till the end,” ...