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2 days ago
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'Earnhardt': Dale Jr.'s drive to race, receiving tough love from father early in career
'I wanted to race cars badly. Just as badly, I think, as my dad.' Episode 3 of the four-part 'Earnhardt' docuseries on Prime Video explores Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s start in racing and the challenges of earning his father's attention in the early portion of his career. Advertisement With racing constantly on his mind growing up, Earnhardt Jr. said he drew race cars often in school. However, his father and stepmother Teresa interpreted it as a different passion for Dale Jr. 'Dad and Teresa came home one day with a giant box of all these supplies, and they said, 'We thought maybe you'd want to go to art school. We were looking at this college down the road,' Earnhardt Jr. said. 'I was like, 'are you freaking out of your mind? I'm not going to art school.' What? Like, I'm not an art student. I'm not into art. I was so spun out. And I was like, 'damn it, you're Dale Earnhardt, and I want to race.' Help me race. What should I do in this moment to be getting closer to racing? Take all this art [expletive] out of here.' RELATED: Watch all four episodes of 'Earnhardt' on Prime Video As Earnhardt Jr. began racing late models locally, his father remained absent from the track with his son. Advertisement Dale Sr.'s friend, Hank Parker, revealed that Earnhardt said he didn't believe his son was cut out for racing. 'I was worried about Dale Jr. and he was green as grass,' Parker said. 'Didn't know a whole lot about racing. Dale Sr. told me one time. He said, 'I don't think that boy will ever be a race driver. He just ain't got it.\"' Earnhardt Jr.: 'If dad was sitting right here, one thing I'd want to ask him, did he ever see me race my late model car? I ran 159 races. I never saw him. He never said, 'Hey, I'm coming to your race this weekend.' He's never around the trailer. Never around the car. I don't know if he saw me.' As Dale Jr. made his way to the Xfinity Series, formerly known as the Busch Grand National Series, he had a rough few outings in his first starts. Advertisement After wrecking out in a race, Dale Jr. recalls an important moment in his relationship with his dad that stuck with him. 'The door flies open on this double-wide trailer I lived in. Boom, boom. I know immediately those are dad's footsteps,' Earnhardt Jr. said. 'He looks over at my buddies that are sitting over there, and he goes, 'get the [expletive] off my property. [They] ran out of the house and jumped in the cars and they drove out the driveway. The shoes are still sitting in the floor. 'He said, 'Come here.' And we walked out. I thought he was gonna whoop my ass. And he goes, 'Man, what are you doing?' I was like, 'I thought my racing career is over.' He's like, 'no, they're gonna fix that car. That's where you should be. You should be wanting to fix your car. Where is that? Where is that inside of you? What's missing in you that you thought to come over here and sit on your ass and feel sorry for yourself?' That was the one father-son talk that we had that sunk in.'
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
This Chilling True Crime Docuseries About The Tylenol Murders Is The Top Show On Netflix
'Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders' is the top TV show on Netflix this week, according to the streamer's public ranking system. The docuseries, which debuted on Monday with three episodes, investigates who is to blame for the 1982 killings of seven people in the Chicago area who took extra-strength Tylenol laced with cyanide and died shortly after. The series features interviews with the victims' families, journalists, federal investigators — and the case's primary suspect, James Lewis, who gave his last interview about the investigation for the project. He died in July 2023. Like the title of the docuseries notes, the case is cold, and authorities never found out who was responsible for the deaths. But the series is a gripping exploration of a public health crisis and one of the largest unsolved crimes in U.S. history. Read on for more trending shows of the moment across streaming services, including Hulu, Apple TV+, Max and Prime Video. And if you want to stay informed about all things streaming and entertainment, subscribe to the Culture Catchall newsletter. Gordon Ramsay's new restaurant reality series premiered on Hulu last week and is already pulling in audiences. The chef, known for his brusque yet helpful culinary direction, is assisting struggling restaurateurs to turn their businesses around. In the first episode, he takes his talents to a Greek restaurant in Washington, D.C. The second episode debuts on Thursday on Hulu. Max released 'Pee-Wee as Himself,' a two-part docuseries featuring actor Paul Reubens, on Friday. In his own words, Reubens shares his life story and talks about his beloved character, Pee-Wee Herman. Director Matt Wolf said that he didn't realize Reubens, who died in 2023, was terminally ill while interviewing him for the docuseries. If you love NASCAR and family dynasties, perhaps you should check out 'Earnhardt,' Prime Video's new docuseries on racing extraordinaire Dale Earnhardt. The four-part series made its series premiere on May 21 with two episodes and the final two parts air on Wednesday. It explores the 'legendary racing career and complex family dynamics of the NASCAR superstar,' according to its logline. Apple TV+'s 'Your Friends and Neighbors' is creeping to the end of its first season this week — the finale airs on Friday — and is continuing to capture eyeballs on the streamer. Starring Jon Hamm, Olivia Munn and Amanda Peet, the TV series follows Coop (Hamm), a finance whiz who loses his job and decides to rob his wealthy neighbors to keep himself afloat. It's a fun and twisty drama that, thankfully, has already been renewed for Season 2. If you're looking for other TV shows to watch, check out our What We're Watching blog. 'The Last of Us' Season 2 Finale Confirms A Huge Missed Opportunity 'The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives' Is A Fascinating Look At Faith And Social Media Fame This 1 Moment Saves The New 'Mission: Impossible' From Being A Total Letdown
NBC Sports
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC Sports
'Earnhardt' director reveals unguarded moments in telling a family story of 'The Intimidator'
Near the start of the four-part 'Earnhardt' docuseries on Amazon Prime, there's a moment when 'The Intimidator' begins an interview in full intimidating fashion. 'It's hot in here,' Earnhardt complains immediately upon sitting down and being mic'd up, and his grumpiness continues as he is told the interview his for a personal feature. 'I don't care, just ask the question,' he snaps. 'What feature? You're going to have to do more than this. Come ride around at the farm with me, I'll show you the personal Dale Earnhardt bullshit.' It's a remarkably unguarded moment because it essentially takes place outside of the formal interview, and those were the 'little gems' that director Joshua Altman and his tireless production team of meticulous editors were seeking as they sifted through more than 10,000 hours of footage (that would be boiled down to roughly four hours). 'A lot of those moments reveal character and personality,' Altman told NBC Sports. 'Once the cameras are really fully rolling and all the things are dialed in, that there tends to be a lot of times a show that people put on or a script that they're reading from, and I think anytime you can deviate from that. For us, the core of this is really about revealing people and humanity and understanding who Dale was and really understanding who everyone else was within the context of it.' There are many of those moments during 'Earnhardt,' which chronologically traces the seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion's rise from unknown racer to cultural icon. 'One of my favorites and it's more on the darker, heavier side, but at the end of episode two, after Neil Bonnett's death, Dale is sitting down and trying to read this script that he's written but not wanting it to sound reed and really struggling to suppress the emotion,' Altman said. 'They can just tell that he's feeling all this sadness and just doesn't want to be present with it. That's always really affecting for me.' The new 'Earnhardt' (the first two episodes were released May 22, the final two on May 29) is touted for using 'rare archival footage' to pair with dozens of interviews. Though the raw snippets from the sitdown interviews were unearthed for the first time, Altman is unsure of how many other scenes never had been seen – though he has a good source for knowing there were a few. 'Dale Jr. has said to us that there have been clips of his father, specifically his grandfather, that he was like, 'I've never seen that of Ralph before,' ' Altman said. 'That of itself is a win because Dale Jr. is such a historian and a fan himself.' After passing on countless similar projects in the 24 years since their father's death, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his older sister, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, gave their approval for 'Earnhardt,' which was produced by Imagine Entertainment, the film production company co-founded by renowned director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer. CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - MAY 22: Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kelley Earnhardt Miller pose on the red carpet for the NASCAR on Prime Presents The World Premiere of Earnhardt at The Revelry on May 22, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo byfor NASCAR and Prime Video) Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kelley Earnhardt Miller pose on the red carpet for the world premiere of 'Earnhardt' at The Revelry on May 22 in Charlotte (for NASCAR and Prime Video). 'This one stood out because of Ron Howard and his team and their success and their ability to tell amazing stories,' Earnhardt Jr. recently told reporters. 'And I only told them what the standard was, or the threshold of in terms of the storytelling and the quality that I was hoping for. And we are so far down the line from his passing and his impact on the sport and when he was here. We're so far removed from that, a large portion of our fan base in NASCAR has never seen him race. And I see a lot of people ask the question, new fans that are coming in saying, 'Why is this person so respected appreciated? Why was he so loved? Help me understand.' And so I feel like it was a great opportunity to introduce him to people that maybe don't know him that well, or don't know much about his career.' Kelley Earnhardt Miller said her three children got an education in the history and impact of their grandfather by watching the docuseries. 'They were introduced to so many new things that they had no clue about, about our dad, about our life, about our families,' Kelley said. 'And so I hope that is what a lot of people that Dale described take away about our dad and his legacy and his history. We want that legacy and history to live on for as long as it can in the sport and above that.' Director Joshua Altman spoke with NBC Sports this week about the making of 'Earnhardt' (this interview has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity): Altman: 'Well, I think that's kind of obvious in that having Dale Jr. calling the races (on Amazon), it was one of those things where it seemed just like that partnership made sense. It was important to have a place that was going to sort of champion this and have it reach as wide an audience as possible.' Altman: 'No, not at all. Yeah, we all came in as NASCAR newbies. And I tend to gravitate toward projects like that. I don't come to things typically that I'm a fan of. I tend to look for things that have some sort of hook in me that I don't know about, and I just come in as a sponge absorbing all of that stuff and getting as best as I can to communicate that to an audience. I find that it's helpful in being able to take that stuff in and find an audience outside of the fandom, too. Ultimately, I think the show is going to resonate with people, hopefully both as fans, but also non-NASCAR fans as well.' Courtesy of Prime Altman: 'We had an incredible team. Archival producer Kelsey Arlington really sort of took hold of that. And then just down below that from assistant editors to producers, everybody's taking all the footage apart. We went to NASCAR, and they had 15 petabytes of material that they were like, 'I don't know. You've got to point us in the direction of what you want.' We didn't just want the typical clips. As the kind of filmmakers that we are, we want the handles on everything. We want to see the moment the camera turns on, the microphone being adjusted. All the little bits and pieces around it. 'So it was very hard to figure out how to get that stuff. But the team at NASCAR was incredible really pointing us in the right direction. They were just able to sort of tell us where some of the things were and then our editors were also just little like finders. They'd be out there watching stuff and be like, 'We need this race from this thing' and just the level of care that everybody put into this was helpful trying to find all the little pieces that haven't been shared yet. We ended up with like 10 ,000 hours of footage. So taking that 10,000 hours and crafting it down to four hours plus is never easy. It was just very much a team effort.' Altman: 'I think sitting down for interviews is the biggest part of it. In a lot of ways, it's not just the communication of info that goes up on screen. We would sit down with Dale for four hours at a time. So he was just giving us both his perspective on things, but also helping us understand, coming in as newbies, like, 'No, that's not what happened. This is what happened.' And allowing us to wrap our heads around that. And then later on, specifically once we got to a place, and it was nerve-wracking as hell, but sharing rough cuts with them. And getting their eyes on it and making sure that things were accurate and also felt honest to both their experiences but also to make sure that fans would not poke holes and stuff.' Altman: 'We have incredible casting tapes in that Dale Jr. has his podcast. I've probably listened to I don't know how many hours of Dale Jr. Download at this point, just trying to wrap my head around all the possible characters. In creating a grid of this person was from this part, or this part and really trying to understand who might have the most insight. David Allen and Hank Parker were two people that really jumped out to us from the Download that he did with them.' David Allen, a close friend of Dale Earnhardt who helped manage his sponsorship marketing (Courtesy of Prime). Altman: 'Yeah, we were hopeful of it for a long time, or I was hopeful of it. I don't know if I could say that all of my team was. I was like, 'Eventually it's going to come through.' So we were in talks with her lawyer and trying to go back and forth, but ultimately, I think we just ran out of time and never really solidified it. Which we were told by many people that we were interviewing in the field. They were like, 'Don't hold your breath.' ' Altman: 'Yeah, and I think that was important for us. And that's why we really wanted to interview her. She had such a place in his life and in building up the business. Their relationship is pretty integral to everything that he built. So just wanting to make sure that we honored that and included her as much as possible within that. So, luckily there was enough archival interviews we felt like to at least have that be present and be understood.' Altman: 'Initially, I didn't want to do it chronologically. Maybe it's just like the editor in me to wonder how to tell this nonlinear. But ultimately, I think the footage really guided us in a lot of ways. As we sat down to break the thing in terms of the chapters, each sort of episode revealed itself. But this is this notion that we were trying to create a time capsule or time machine, and I think a lot of that is most effective when you get to experience these chapters as they unfold and to really live in the '80s. To watch this Wrangler car and then to watch the transformation to the black car and to see the details of the picture start to change. As well as the characters themselves. It just felt like the right way to do this.' Altman: 'When we were pitching it, we never want to say this, but we when we pitch it for people to say it back to us that it feels like a Greek tragedy in a lot of ways. All the different elements of it, even from Darrell Waltrip, who's incredible walking us through it. But even his relationship of Dale that transpires, and the arc of this to ending with kissing him on the forehead, after he's passed. All of that feels both sad but also real. And I think Dale and Kelley both emerge from this shadow. I think there's still hope in that. And in a lot of ways, it stands for everybody else to have their own takeaway. But for me, a lot of this has to do with processing grief in terms of the series itself. That every time they're sitting down in an interview, that there is an element of that at play. That we as an audience, whether we know it or not, know that they're sitting down after the death of their father and processing that grief.' Kelley Earnhardt Miller with her father at a Cup Series race (Courtesy of Prime). Altman: 'Oh yeah, for sure. We watched everything that had Dale in it or that was about him before this. And to be honest with you, every time we sat down in an interview, people were like, 'Why are you doing this? This has been told before. How is this going to be different?' That was the thing that we got asked often. And the thing that we really kept coming back to was that our story was about family more than anything. We wanted to tell the story that was about family. Dale Earnhardt is very much the center of that family. He is the gravitational force within it, and I think part of that relates to the immediate family, whether that be Dale, Kelley, Cathy, Kay, Mamaw. Everybody within that universe. But then there's also the racing family, from Chocolate and Childress and all these other people. And so to make sure that like this all sort of came back in these sort of family dynamics and the way that that played out. That was something that we were like, 'OK, this hasn't been told before.' ' Altman: 'Well, even a lot of that stuff that we had to cut out. In terms of like 'You have to have this race,' and then we try to, and this one actually doesn't fit with the storyline. So it's kind of a push and pull of that of where some stuff is crucial and then other stuff, our editors would just find these little gems that had happened. It would be like, 'Whoa, wait a second. Nobody told us about this, and it's crucial to understand who he is as a person and what transpired.' So again this is a team sport, and I have the most incredible team I could ever ask for both in terms of unearthing little gems and trying to think about how all these pieces fit together. There was a lot of that back and forth and guiding what is crucial to understanding the man and what is crucial to understanding the family story vs. just the Wikipedia page.' Altman: 'There are just so many. It's chock full of that. I hope in a lot of ways that people take away that, too. People who are fans can watch this and they're like, 'Wow, I've never seen that before.' But it's weird. I don't know what those moments are because I don't know how much really is out there or what people have seen before. For me, all of it is just a really interesting peek behind the curtain that you can only do with archival when you have this much material. You really get to see and understand such an amazing figure in our time.'
Fox Sports
22-05-2025
- Automotive
- Fox Sports
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s No. 8 back for MLB's Speedway Classic
NASCAR's iconic No. 8 will feature once again at the high banks as part of MLB's marquee event of the season. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. will reunite with an updated version of his red-and-white color scheme in support of the MLB Speedway Classic, set for Aug. 2 between the Cincinnati Reds and the Atlanta Braves at Bristol Motor Speedway. The iconic racetrack in Bristol, Tennessee, will be temporarily converted into a baseball diamond in the latest move to hold games in unique settings. MLB has previously played games in places like the Field of Dreams in Iowa; in Birmingham, Alabama, to celebrate Negro League baseball; and overseas in London. And while it will be MLB's first foray into holding a game at a racetrack, Earnhardt, Jr. is no stranger to Bristol. During his NASCAR Cup Series career, Earnhardt had nine victories at the Speedway. There's also a baseball connection to one of the most recognizable designs in motorsports. Earnhardt piloted the No. 8 red-and-white design – adorned with a Budweiser/MLB All-Star scheme – in July 2001 on his way to winning the Pepsi 400. That race also marked his return to Daytona International Speedway after the death of his father, Dale Earnhardt, at the track earlier that year. The Aug. 2 game will be the first regular-season MLB game held in Tennessee, and could break baseball's attendance record, which currently stands at 115,000 from a 2008 preseason game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum. The Bristol racetrack has a listed capacity of 146,000 and saw more than 159,000 people attend a Tennessee-Virginia Tech college football game in 2016. Dale Jr., who retired from full-time competition in 2017, will also race in the No. 8 scheme at the zMAX CARS Tour event on August 16 at the Anderson Motor Speedway in South Carolina. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account , and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily! recommended Get more from Major League Baseball Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more
New York Post
22-05-2025
- Automotive
- New York Post
Prime Video's new doc on Dale Earnhardt drops today — How to watch for free
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. Prime Video is going all-in on NASCAR. This weekend, the streamer will be the exclusive home to the Coca-Cola 600, marking the first time that a NASCAR race airs only on a streaming service, but ahead of that, a new documentary series is exploring the legendary career and complex family dynamics of one of the sport's biggest names: Dale Earnhardt. Earnhardt made his NASCAR debut almost exactly 50 years ago in the 1975 World 600 and over his 26-year career, he became one of the most visible people in the sport with 76 race wins and a record-tying seven NASCAR Cup Series championships. Advertisement His family also followed him onto the track, most notably his son Dale Earnhardt Jr., who had his own 19-year career in NASCAR. The 'Earnhardt' documentary takes a deeper look at the family dynamics and the Earnhardt legacy, culminating in Dale Sr.'s tragic death on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. The documentary, from Oscar-winning producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, features rare archival footage, thrilling races, and emotionally revealing interviews from his children, rivals, and closest friends. 'Earnhardt' on Prime Video release date: The first two episodes of 'Earnhardt' are now streaming on Prime Video on its May 22 release date. Two additional episodes will begin streaming on Thursday, May 29. How to watch 'Earnhardt' for free: Advertisement 'Earnhardt' is streaming exclusively on Prime Video, so you'll have to be an Amazon Prime subscriber to watch the documentary series. Once signed up, you can watch 'Earnhardt' online or with the Prime Video app on any supported device, including Fire TV sticks and Fire tablets. If you aren't a Prime Video subscriber yet, you can get started with a 30-day Amazon Prime free trial, including Prime perks like the Prime Video streaming service, free two-day shipping, exclusive deals, and more. After the free trial, Amazon Prime costs $14.99/month or $139/year. All 18- to 24-year-olds, regardless of student status, are eligible for a discounted Prime for Young Adults membership as well, with age verification. After a six-month free trial, you'll pay 50% off the standard Prime monthly price of $14.99/month — just $7.49/month — for up to six years and get all the perks. 'Earnhardt' documentary episode guide: Advertisement The 'Earnhardt' documentary series has four hour-long episodes split into two releases. Episode 1: 'Ironhead' – Thursday, May 22 Thursday, May 22 Episode 2: 'The Intimidator' – Thursday, May 22 Thursday, May 22 Episode 3: 'One Tough Customer' – Thursday, May 29 Thursday, May 29 Episode 4: 'Dale' – Thursday, May 29 NASCAR on Prime Video 2025 schedule: This year, Prime Video will be the exclusive broadcaster of five NASCAR Cup Series races, beginning with this weekend's Coca-Cola 600. Adam Alexander will serve as lap-by-lap announcer during these races, with Dale Jr. and former crew chief Steve Letarte offering color commentary. Advertisement Why Trust Post Wanted by the New York Post This article was written by Angela Tricarico, Commerce Writer/Reporter for Post Wanted Shopping and New York Post's streaming property, Decider. Angela keeps readers up to date with cord-cutter-friendly deals, and information on how to watch your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and movies on each streaming service. Not only does Angela test and compare the streaming services she writes about to ensure readers are getting the best prices, but she's also a superfan specializing in the intersection of shopping, tech, sports, and pop culture. Prior to joining Decider and New York Post in 2023, she wrote about streaming and consumer tech at Insider Reviews
