Katie Hnida is still kicking – and that’s the title of her book.
The Colorado native, and daughter of Dr. Dave on CBS4, was the football kicker for CU-Boulder. From her first day of practice, she writes, she was insulted, groped and humiliated. She writes that she was eventually raped by a teammate.
The book is much more explicit than anything previously revealed. Before now, Hnida has pretty much avoided the spotlight. Now she’s skedded for “Today” and “Larry King Live” on Tuesday.
“I don’t think you have to be a football fan or a woman or a rape victim to get something out of the book,” she tells me. “It a human story about someone who had a goal and some terrifically hard obstacles thrown in her way but pressed on. I hope it encourages people and inspires, as clichéd and cheesy as that might sound.”
It’s not at all cheesy to listen to this articulate fighter. You can see her at the Tattered Cover Colfax at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 5.
Acting class
Denver kid AnnaSophia Robb is making movies faster than you can say “action!” She turns 13 on Dec. 8, and she already has eight flickers in the can – with big names in bright lights.
She has two new films coming out in February: “The Reaping” with Hilary Swank – a chiller about Satan. Robb has the lead in “A Bridge to Terabithia” with Josh Hutcherson. She recently finished filming “A West Texas Children’s Story” in New Mexico with Val Kilmer, Matthew Modine and Lara Flynn Boyle. She’s in Canada now filming “Ferris Wheel,” due next year with Charlize Theron, Dennis Hopper and Woody Harrelson. And “Jumper” is about to start shooting with Robb, Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson. That’s some bio for a 13-
year-old.
The way they were
Friday night’s edition of Ch. 12’s “Colorado Inside Out” looks a little different. The cast of characters shot the show a week early – with the theme of showing up as they were 25-30 years ago. That means host Peter Boyles came as a hard drinking, coke snorting traffic reporter and disco DJ.
Patty Calhoun showed up looking pretty much the same. “Half the things in my closet are that old,” she says. “Turtlenecks.” She was planning on moving to Denver and starting what would become Westword.
Dani Newsum came as the anti-imperialist University of Colorado cheerleader that she was. “It was the ’70s, what can I say?”
Conservative Dave Kopel came as a Jimmy Carter campaign worker, complete with a polyester purple shirt and a “J.C. CAN SAVE THE NATION” campaign button.
City spirit
Marcus Camby and his Cambyland Foundation totally underwrite the Thanksgiving meal 10 a.m.-noon today at Jackson’s Sports Rock at 1520 20th St. Everyone welcome, Metro Taxi offering free rides, delivery to homebound at 303-294-0111 … Eric Clapton down to play Pepsi Center March 7 … Sez who: “Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not coincidence.” Erma Bombeck
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