Friday, April 17, 1998
Switzer Reportedly Gets TV Role
DALLAS (AP) -- Barry Switzer's critics joked that he only
pretended to coach the Dallas Cowboys, giving in repeatedly to
brash personalities and tolerating misbehavior off the field.
Now there is no doubt he will get a big check to play at being
coach.
Switzer will portray a coach on HBO's Arli$$ and in a movie
about Texas high school football, The Dallas Morning News reported
today.
Switzer also has plans to host a talk show and a film version
of ``Bootlegger's Boy,'' which chronicles the coach's rise from
poverty in Arkansas to the pinnacle of college football with
three national championships at the University of Oklahoma.
``There's been a lot of interest in Barry in the Hollywood
community,'' said Steven Fenton, Switzer's Hollywood agent. ``The
question is what does Barry want to do. We'll take it on a project-by-project
basis.''
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