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...Citadel. After reading about the vicious hazing, which supposedly builds character but instead seems to keep these students at a juvenile level, I can only ask, What company would want to fill its jobs with men who set people on fire and force them to sing obscene songs? MARY SHELTON Riverside, California...
After reading about the vicious hazing, which supposedly builds character but instead seems to keep these students at a juvenile level, I can only ask, What company would want to fill its jobs with men who set people on fire and force them to sing obscene songs? MARY SHELTON Riverside, California...
This is an unworthy fear. By this time we should have learned to trust the cockeyed integrity of Ron Shelton, who directed and co-wrote (with John Norville) the film. Surely the movies' reigning poet of knucklehead machismo, the man who gave us Bull Durham and Cobb, will find an entertaining and instructive way for Roy to immolate himself...
This he does. For like Shelton's other heroes, Roy is a purist. His quest is not necessarily for the best score--an enterprise that needs caution and compromise--but for that near unattainable ideal, the perfectly struck golf ball, which requires oneness with the universe. That a foolhardy opportunity to achieve that state arises on the last hole of the Open is the kind of bad dumb luck he's used to; this guy's been playing out of the existential rough all his life...
...Like writer-director Ron (Bull Durham, Cobb) Shelton's other heroes, golfer Roy McAvoy (Kevin Costner) is a purist. His quest is not necessarily for the best score -->