A film on Secretariat

Hollywood likes to label and cubbyhole its artists. Thus Portland screenwriter Mike Rich keeps getting assignments to write feel-good sports stories. His latest, scheduled to start shooting this fall, is about the great race horse Secretariat. I'll be eager to see it. Rich's challenge, and it's a big one, is to match the quality of the most recent Seabiscuit film, and he doesn't have the historical backdrop that the other horse had. I'll be very curious to see how it all turns out. I wish him luck.