For all of you who know Leslie the Fortress Livingston, this should help you know her better.
For all of you who don't know Leslie the Fortress Livingston, prepare for the thrill ride get-to-know-Leslie event of the year.
A little background: Leslie is the 4th woman in history in the 45-49 year age group to beat 30 seconds in the 50 SCM butterfly.
She did this at age 47, and it is possible that she is actually the FIRST woman in history this old to break 30 at the age (assuming the previous 3 were 45 or 46.)
www.youtube.com/watch
This small film will help you understand all that goes into becoming an extraordinary human being/swimmer. Oh, and there's a little about Leslie in this, too.
Just joking. It's all about Leslie. With some guest appearances by Paul Wolf, Julie "Mulie" Oplinger, Jeff "the Barbarian" Roddin, and Jim Thornton as "the narrator."
Please enjoy before Leslie forces Jim Matysek to take this down.
Mel and all you other very kindly fans of the Leslie Livingston homage, I just want to give credit here to my twin brother, John, who took my cell phone footage and combined this with an oversized piece of green cardboard in his livingroom to produce this film. Thanks, as well, to Mr. Robert Redford of Park City, Utah, for agreeing on such short notice to play the complex and challenging role of Mr. Jim Thornton, USMS member and enigma.
John has a number of other films about swimming and other subjects on his YouTube channel, RustyScupperton. Interested viewers may want to check out such classics as Handsome Like Me, Three Time Loser: The Jim Thornton story, and Captain's Plunge: Sea Isle Polar Bear '08
Thanks for viewing, and please give Leslie a deserved round of applause for conquering her tiredness in such a dramatic way. Her time may or may not "count" for FINA's all-time Top 10 performances, but I am confident that the possibility of a Thornton Twins investigative documentary on FINA practices will be enough to make the powers that be reconsider any less than salubrious outcome here.
Mel and all you other very kindly fans of the Leslie Livingston homage, I just want to give credit here to my twin brother, John, who took my cell phone footage and combined this with an oversized piece of green cardboard in his livingroom to produce this film. Thanks, as well, to Mr. Robert Redford of Park City, Utah, for agreeing on such short notice to play the complex and challenging role of Mr. Jim Thornton, USMS member and enigma.
John has a number of other films about swimming and other subjects on his YouTube channel, RustyScupperton. Interested viewers may want to check out such classics as Handsome Like Me, Three Time Loser: The Jim Thornton story, and Captain's Plunge: Sea Isle Polar Bear '08
Thanks for viewing, and please give Leslie a deserved round of applause for conquering her tiredness in such a dramatic way. Her time may or may not "count" for FINA's all-time Top 10 performances, but I am confident that the possibility of a Thornton Twins investigative documentary on FINA practices will be enough to make the powers that be reconsider any less than salubrious outcome here.
