Posts Tagged ‘Ben Mankiewicz’
BULL DURHAM: Tim Robbins Nearly Fired After First Day
It’s been 30 years since Bull Durham hit theaters, which is widely considered the best sports film ever and one of the best comedies of all time. Bull Durham is about aging catcher Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) demoted back to the minor leagues to coach promising pitcher “Nuke†Laloosh (Tim Robbins) and encounters Annie Savoy, a…
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“Do not eat the meat!†Veronica Cartwright says that while filming the huge Houston barbeque scene in The Right Stuff, a booming voice shouted over and over again with a reminder to not eat the steak served on all of the plates. Indeed, in the film, plates and plates of food are shown, and Dennis…
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