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...strangest pitch that anyone threw this summer in Bull Durham was a curve ball that Kevin Costner delivered to Susan Sarandon. In the midst of a romantic face-off, he announced that "the novels of Susan Sontag are self- indulgent, overrated crap." Sarandon was so surprised -- Who was talking literature? -- that it took a few scenes before she hit the pitch back: "I think Susan Sontag is brilliant!" So there. Alerted by friends to this great debate, the flesh-and-blood Sontag left Bull Durham off her must-see list. She well remembered watching a French-Canadian film, The Decline...
...Bull Durham, as the film is called, talks of the Minor leagues...
...Bull Durham--10 a.m., 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:20, 10 p.m.; Sun., no 10:15 a.m. show...
BASEBALL is a religion. At least, that's what the makers of Bull Durham wanted this summer's movie audience to think. But there is nothing religious about a movie, billed as the best baseball film ever, that starts out talking baseball and finishes up talking about the birds and the bees. Bull Durham was more concerned about Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon making love in a bathtub and then in the kitchen and then back to the bedroom. That's religious. But not in the religion of baseball...
Unlike Bull Durham, Eight Men Out is a true baseball film. Although it may go too far in attributing Frank Capra-esque traits to baseball, the movie does attempt to present the sport the way it should be, as an integral part of American culture. When news of the scandal becomes public, Chicago is in shock. The possibility of actual players, the immortal heroes of the city, sacrificing their talent for a few quick bucks is unthinkable in the untarnished world of baseball. Yet Sayles succeeds in bringing his point across. Innocence will always tarnish, whether it be love...