![]() ![]() The same would have been true of Yogi seeing himself on a U.S. Speaking at a recent Manhattan screening, Lindsay Berra says her grandfather, the son of Italian immigrants, would likely feel “a little overwhelmed’’ at being a documentary subject. “And we thought those had come to define him, and that society was kind of unwilling to view him as anything other than a caricature.’’ Yogi Berra: A life well lived Yes, he had those Yogi-isms,’’ says Sean Mullin, the film’s writer-director. Playing at 100 Metropolitan area theaters beginning May 12 – what would have been Yogi Berra’s 98 th birthday – “It Ain’t Over’’ also seeks to clear some distortions.Įspecially if your memory of Berra is a round-ish, odd-looking pitchman mangling English syntax. What you might not realize – of Berra’s war service, his less-discussed baseball acumen, his enduring marriage - is at the heart of a new 98-minute documentary. Of course, Grandpa Yogi was also a 10-time world champion Hall-of-Fame Yankee and something of a national treasure, things you already know. ![]()
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