The film that made grown men cry and made TV movies a TV staple -- that's the legend of Brian's Song, which debuted on ABC Nov. 30, 1971. That legend lives again Sunday, but in an all-new ABC remake.
Al Silverman, a magazine editor and publishing executive who collaborated with Chicago Bears halfback Gale Sayers on an autobiography that was adapted into “Brian’s Song,” the popular 1971 television ...