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Updated: November 14, 2014 12:34 PM [ET] | Originally published: November 14, 2014 11:00 AM EST; Foxcatcher, out Friday, chronicles the real-life story of Mark and Dave Schultz (played by Channing ...
Aug 24, 2014 · He first heard about the Foxcatcher story soon after the 2006 Oscars when an attendee ... We got to talking about Foxcatcher again, and this time, ... 2014 issue of New York Magazine. Tags: fall ...
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That’s tough to do in Foxcatcher, which tells an eerie, confounding true story that can’t be easily synopsized. Tatum plays wrestler Mark Schultz, a 1984 Olympic gold medalist living a humdrum ...
- John Du Pont, Heir to A Vast Fortune
- Dave Schultz Takes The Helm of Team Foxcatcher
- John Du Pont’s Descent Into Madness
- The Shocking Murder of Dave Schultz
- John Du Pont Faces Justice, Then Foxcatcher Reopens Old Wounds
Born Nov. 22, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, John E. du Pont was American royalty as a member of the family behind the du Pont chemical company. His family raised thoroughbred horses on their 800-acre farm in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, where a young du Pont wandered the grounds obsessing over birds and wildlife — a small refuge from an isol...
Dave Schultz was du Pont’s second choice for the face of Team Foxcatcher. At first, he’d hired Dave’s brother Mark, another Olympic gold medalist in his own right, to train his Foxcatcher Team. It didn’t take Mark long, though, before he became frustrated with the way du Pont treated him, like a toy he’d bought with a $70,000 salary. “We were his n...
Dave Schultz had turned out to be a godsend for Foxcatcher Farm. Most importantly, he was the only person who could handle John du Pont. After John du Pont lost his mother in 1988, his sanity started to crumble. Life at Foxcatcher Farm became a living hell. du Pont would insist that he could see Disney characters hiding on his property or trees upr...
According to one Dave’s friends, Mike Gostigian, Dave was the only person who could really handle John du Pont: “Dave was the person closest to John. He was a calming influence, a confidant. But Dave wasn’t a yes man. If John said he saw things coming out of the walls, Dave said nothing was coming out of the walls. I think John might have harbored ...
The victims got justice – but at the terrible cost of ensuing publicity. Du Pont’s lawyer tried to blame the whole thing on Patrick Goodale. She accused him of milking du Pont for his money and feeding his paranoid schizophrenia until he turned into a killer, dragging his name through the mud while the world watched from their living rooms. Dave’s ...
Nov 14, 2014 · From 1989 to 1996, Dave lived on the estate’s grounds with his family, training “Team Foxcatcher.”. And then one cold January day, du Pont came home and shot Dave while he was working on his ...
Jan 4, 2015 · The story of how one of America’s greatest wrestlers came to be murdered by the scion of one of America’s wealthiest families, is now being told in a new film, Foxcatcher, released on Friday ...
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Nov 14, 2014 · Is a True Crime Story Striving for Significance. It’s hard to believe that’s Steve Carell as the real-life weirdo John du Pont (of the du Ponts) in his first scene in Foxcatcher. It’s an ...
