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Screenplay by PAUL GARDNER and EUGENE ARCHER...
...wisecracks (Flea: "Nice shot!" Lee: "What did you expect from the U.S. Open champion?ground balls?"). They love his catch phrases ("Black is beautiful, but brown is cute") and his apologies for cussing ("Excuse me, lady, I thought you was a tree"). Says 1969 Masters Champion George Archer: "The tour is like a big circus that pulls into town once a year, and Lee is the ringmaster and clown rolled into...
...right, he has a flat chopping stroke that sends his drives off the tee like sharp singles to center field. Dead center field, that is. No power hitter, he makes up in accuracy what he lacks in distance. "The only time Lee's off the fairway," says Archer, "is when he's answering the phone." As for his short game, few if any of the pros surpass his skill at, as he puts it, "dropping the ball on the Governor's lawn." Once there, he putts like a pool shark. "My swing's not much," he says...
Murphy was twice married: the first time for a little more than a year, to Starlet Wanda Hendrix. His second marriage, to Pamela Archer, was more durable. He had two sons and was a devoted father. In his last years he and his family lived in a two-story English-style farmhouse in Los Angeles, attempting to make a new start...
...book only Archer, a man of enlightened desperation, can make the imaginative effort necessary to understand that for practical purposes, man is what he does. Like many a brave individual before him, he comes to the hard knowledge that blindness to human possibilities is like ignorance of the law. In both cases, one is guilty by default...