"Dale" to make its TV debut

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Dale Earnhardt is known as one of the most legendary drivers in the history of NASCAR, and his life both on and off the track is featured in the two-hour CMT feature, DALE, premiering Tuesday, Sept. 4 at 8 p.m on CMT.

DALE will encore at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 5 and Thursday, Sept. 6, with those being the only additional scheduled airings of DALE on CMT prior to the film’s release on DVD next year.

Produced by NASCAR Images and CMT Films, DALE is the only authorized film on Dale Earnhardt. Narrated by Paul Newman, this portrait of Dale Earnhardt includes archival race footage, rare outtakes, never-before-seen family home videos and interviews with his closest friends and family, toughest competitors and most avid fans, illustrating the depth of Earnhardt's influence in the racing world and beyond.

DALE was produced with the support and endorsement of Richard Childress Racing, plus the Earnhardt family, corporation, and team. Prior to airing on CMT, DALE was launched theatrically in February 2007 and premiered in select cities on the NEXTEL Cup Series circuit. DALE will be available on DVD first quarter 2008.
 
And don't forget the Brooks & Dunn special the hour before Dale

DALE Pre-show: His Greatest Comeback
Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn reminisce about the life and career of Dale Earnhardt and relive his dramatic comeback victory at Talladega.
 
We don't get CMT here. Any word on it eventually being shown on somethingelse?
 
I missed the first half of it because I was thinking it was on Wed night. I will watch the second showing tommorrow.
 
Excellent job CMT. :bounce:

Nothing has ever captured the experience or relived that moment like this movie. Reminds me of watching that funeral and all the moments on CBS, FOX, TNN, ESPN, CNN, MSNBC.

This should get an effing Oscar.
 
ajk112802 said:
We don't get CMT here. Any word on it eventually being shown on somethingelse?
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Watch for CBS. They own CMT.

Iff you can't wait, ccheck the torrents. If worst comes to worst, I'll burn you a DVD (recorded it on VLC).
 
I remember DW saying he hoped Dale was OK. That was the first time I thought something was wrong.
 
Loved the movie just wish they a little more footage
 
I finally realized during this movie just how much DaleJr had to be affected by all the memorial stuff happening at every race that year. That just broke my heart. I don't think I ever thought about that during 2001 --- I was just remembering and honoring along with everyone else. How that young man ever climbed back into a car.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
I finally realized during this movie just how much DaleJr had to be affected by all the memorial stuff happening at every race that year. That just broke my heart. I don't think I ever thought about that during 2001 --- I was just remembering and honoring along with everyone else. How that young man ever climbed back into a car.
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I agree
 
I was sure a thread would be started about the movie and I'm glad. First off, let me say that I was a very loyal ABE fan. Man how I disliked that man. I knew that he was a very generous man off the track, and he was totally different when he didn't have that uniform on, but when he strapped that helmet on and got into his car, he was, as DW said, ruthless. I remember exactly when I started my dislike for that man, and it happened to be when he spun out DW at Bristol. After that, it seemed that he just kept spinning out cars and going on to win. And it didn't help either when he beat Elliott at the Winston with his running in the grass.

Okay, enough of my feelings for the man, but I totally enjoyed the movie and a couple of time, a tear appeared in my eye. I recalled the day he won the Daytona 500 and I actually cheered for him, must have lost my mind for a second. But it was good to see him win that race, as it was when DW won. I also recall that day he died. I was in the Super Stretch that day, and it hadn't been all that long that we saw Tony Stewarts car go flying through the air right in front of us. We were monitoring many drivers with the scanner and one of them was DE. Coming around that last lap, I recall him telling his spotter to tell that G..d..m Waltrip that I'm blocking for him, and then it happened. From where we were sitting, it didn't appear all that bad. Afterall, we had just witnessed the "Big One" with cars flying through the air and they all walked away, though later we learned they had taken Tony to the hospital for observation. On our way to the bus, we were still monitoring Fox and could hear the booth even when they were off air. We heard DW and Larry almost crying, though I'm not sure they were and then the director told them that they needed to get things together and to end the broadcast. We were staying in Jacksonville and had almost made it back there before it was announced officially that he had died. All the way back to the hotel, that bus was totally silent, very somber. It was a real loss in the sport, and though he was probably my most disliked driver, I mourned for him.

The movie showed a side of the man that few knew. Of course, there were all kinds of stories about how nice he was, and the movie made it look like everyone in the country loved that man. One thing for sure, his fans were and still are, some of the most vocal and loyal fans of any sport that I've seen. The "best" ever? We'll never know for sure, but one thing we do know is that he was the best seven times during his carreer and that is a mark that only one other driver achieved and it may never be matched again. As for him being very fan friendly, again, I guess it's all in when and where you were. I've a friend who was such a fan of his and through another friend of ours, she was able to work with scoring one year at New Hampshire. Dale had probably had a bad time during this period and thought that he could find privacy in the scoring booth. My friend walked in, and imagine what it would be like to come face to face with your idol? She said "hi" and would have asked for his autograph, but he immediately told her to get lost. Not at all fan friendly at that moment, though you can imagine how he wanted privacy at that time. It hurt her, but she got over it and when he died, she pretty much gave up on the sport.

Again, I enjoyed both the movie and the "pre-movie special" and if you can't see it on CMT, I'm sure it will come out on DVD someday and you will absolutely have to see it. Take if from an old ABE fan, this will make you miss that old boy and you'll realize that when he left the sport, along with him went something special that has yet to come back.
 
I forgot about it also, i watched the last hour, I had to hold back a few tears when it got to the end of the movie. Dale was my "hero". When i was a little fellow i wrote a letter and on the out side i just put "Dale Earnhardt, his city and zip (im not even going to try to spell it) well about a year or so later i got back an autographed 8x10. This had to be 93-94 because the pic say six time champ. I never did get to meet him in person, nor watch him race, but i sure wish i did. NASCAR has not been the same to me since the day he lost his life. I also wish they showed with him racing in the last few days of his life, like the IROC race were he spun that guy out after the race, or when he took Terry Bradshaw around the track in the pace car.
 
That was really good stuff. I was not a fan of his because at the time I thought NASCAR was stupid and my life revolved around hockey as far as sports go. I knew a couple drivers names, Wallace and Gordon being the other two, but that’s about it. When I finally got into racing 3 years ago and started getting into the whole history of NASCAR and all of that, his name and Petty were all over the place.

It wasn’t until about a year ago when I saw a race he was in, on ESPN classic, that I understood what a badass he really was. The guy was fearless in this race (I forget what race it was). He was just fun to watch and took control of the race. I could tell by the way he drove that he hated loosing. Whenever I catch a race on espn classic I am glued to it. He makes me wish I would have gotten into the sport years ago. I don't see how most of you like what NASCAR has turned into compared to what it was just ten years ago. I'm a newbie and I hate the COT, I hate the chase and I hate how the drivers have a leash on them. It has to drive some of you nuts. It would be like the NHL taking hitting and fighting out of hockey.

Sorry, I got on a rant. Anyway, I now understand why Dale had so many fans. Guys like Earnhardt were what it is all about. Watching this movie about him made me feel like I can do anything. I was really impressed.

By the way its on again tomorrow and Thursday.
 
I remember watching all the memorials on CNN.

I was always the racing expert, the go to guy, even in middle school. I remember a dozens times, kids asking me what the significance of Dale Earnhardt was. I wasn't much of an Earnhardt fan, but even I knew what it was even then. Earnhardt was the greatest driver ever to climb into a stock car. The black number three represented, to any other driver or any other drivers' fans, the evil spirit that would crush the competition and make it look easy.

Of course, the most vivid memory of Dale Earnhardt to me, was the 1999 Food City 500, the epilogue of 1995. There it was, that little $#!* won again, and every other car of every other driver who was a contender was swept up in this mess. Yet he loved that. And his fans loved that. That was just wrong man, his fans were cheering. I mean, there should've been a law against that.

There are parts of this country that are coal mining towns. There's a lot of Americans in Dale Earnhardt. He just wasn't human though, not on the track. Drivers came and went. Rusty, who dominated the circuit in wins, was fading to the back burner. Terry Labonte and Mark Martin weren't running too well. Ernie Irvan retired, and now we had Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon. But one thing remained the same, there was the black chevrolet, with the white number 3. It still looked like the Batmobile. He was scary man. And somehow, someway, he was still winning races. 48 years old? Hut Stricklin, Lake Speed, Loy Allen, Jr., Darrell Waltrip and Harry Gant don't even run anymore and this guys still out there winning races.

In 2001, there it was, I thought it was any other normal wreck. There's Ironhead racing rough. The satisfaction of Michael winning amongst Darrell's retirement, it was overwhelming. Just a great atmosphere. And another season of racing underway. And then, we were flipping channels and passed by CNN. My dad called me down and told me Dale died. I laughed, because I didn't believe him. I looked on the TV screen, and there's Mike Helton, "We've lost Dale Earnhardt." :eek:

I watched some more, and then the next day, I was glued to Brian Williams and MSNBC. Everything everyone had said, between Darrell and Dale, unbelievable.

The greatest moment for me, ever, was when Kevin Harvick won the Atlanta 500. I was a Mark Martin fan, and I hated Jeff Gordon then as much as I do now. :mad:

Mark wasn't running well, and they were talking about he was going to retire soon. So, I had to cheer for another driver, who I would pull for for the next 20 years. Why not Harvick?

There he is with one lap to go in Dale's car. Driving down the back stretch and is side by side with my mortal image of Satan (the flames, haha). That moment, when Harvick one that race, was so surreal. It changed racing for me, the new era of racing.
 
sledge said:
That was really good stuff. I was not a fan of his because at the time I thought NASCAR was stupid and my life revolved around hockey as far as sports go. I knew a couple drivers names, Wallace and Gordon being the other two, but that’s about it. When I finally got into racing 3 years ago and started getting into the whole history of NASCAR and all of that, his name and Petty were all over the place.

It wasn’t until about a year ago when I saw a race he was in, on ESPN classic, that I understood what a badass he really was. The guy was fearless in this race (I forget what race it was). He was just fun to watch and took control of the race. I could tell by the way he drove that he hated loosing. Whenever I catch a race on espn classic I am glued to it. He makes me wish I would have gotten into the sport years ago. I don't see how most of you like what NASCAR has turned into compared to what it was just ten years ago. I'm a newbie and I hate the COT, I hate the chase and I hate how the drivers have a leash on them. It has to drive some of you nuts. It would be like the NHL taking hitting and fighting out of hockey.

Sorry, I got on a rant. Anyway, I now understand why Dale had so many fans. Guys like Earnhardt were what it is all about. Watching this movie about him made me feel like I can do anything. I was really impressed.

By the way its on again tomorrow and Thursday.
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"Second place just the first loser." :D

That theory is how I live my life. Being some girl's 2nd choice don't mean anything. Being runner-up in a skills competition don't mean anything. 2nd choice for a promotion. It's win or go home in life.
 
That show brought back many memories, some I had forgotten about, some I was watching from the grandstands at Talladega, and some that are burned in my memories forever. The replay of his last win, WOW, I remember being in the Lincoln Tower just out of turn 4 at talladega. That was something I will never,ever forget.
That was an outstanding show, it was put together perfectly. I will buy the dvd and keep it forever.
I still miss the black 3, it was a marker on the race track. HE is gone but will always be remembered.
 
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