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Entertainment Weekly: ‘Cutting Edge’ star D.B. Sweeney on toe picks, broken legs, and awful sequels
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Entertainment Weekly: ‘Cutting Edge’ star D.B. Sweeney on toe picks, broken legs, and awful sequels

In honor of the Sochi Games, PopWatch is taking a look back at a few of our favorite Winter Olympics-themed movies. First up: The Cutting Edge, the classic 1992 “hockey player meets figure skater” romantic comedy. We talked to star D.B. Sweeney — who played cocky ex-hockey star Doug Dorsey, opposite Moira Kelly’s snooty ice queen Kate Moseley — about the making of the film, the impossible physics of its climactic bounce-spin-throw (the “Pamchenko”), and its truly wretched sequels. Toe pick!

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There’s a New Sports Movie Out…
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There’s a New Sports Movie Out…

THERE’S A NEW SPORTS MOVIE OUT called ‘‘Underdogs.’’ It’s a low-budget high school football melodrama, shot in less than month in Canton, Ohio. The actor D.B. Sweeney plays the hard-ass coach who, as expected, turns the losing program around and, in the rebuilding process, gets to say things like, ‘‘If you look good, you feel good and you play good.’’

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This Week at the Movies with D.B. Sweeney
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This Week at the Movies with D.B. Sweeney

​​D.B. Sweeney​​’s career has spanned 30 years. He has had memorable roles in the films “Memphis Belle”, “Eight Men Out”, “Gardens of Stone” and “The Cutting Edge”, along with too many television appearances to even mention, including his recurring role on “@ And A Half Men”. He sits down with This Weekend At The Movies to discuss his new film, “Underdogs”.

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D.B. Visits Claremore Veterans
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D.B. Visits Claremore Veterans

A little bit of Hollywood was in Rogers County Sunday, when film and television actor D.B. Sweeney made a stop in Claremore to spend time with the men and women at the Claremore Veteran’s Center.

On his way to Chicago, Sweeney decided to stop in Claremore with his friend Webster Whinnery, a stuntman/actor, and the brother of Dr. Michael Whinnery, physician at the veterans center, making possible an “under the radar” stop in Claremore.

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