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Review: ‘Bull Durham’ too predictable
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Review
Richards get coached
by Governor Cuomo
By Staci Finch
Reviewer
Basketball season is over, and foot
ball season is still a few months away,
but baseball season is in full swing;
both on the diamond and on the big
screen.
Kevin Costner and Susan Saran
don star in “Bull Durham,” one of
the few movies out this summer
without a Roman numeral attached
to it. Set in the world of- minor
league baseball, the movie shows a
side of the game not often seen on a
television screen.
Kevin Costner is Crash Davis, a
minor league veteran called to the
Carolina league to season a young,
brash, but extremely talented
pitcher, Ebby Cary Laloosa (Tim
Robbins). Upon arrival in Durham,
Davis and Laloosa are confronted by
Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon), a
follower of the team who every year
chooses a player to “coach” through
the season. Davis and Laloosa are
the top candidates, but Davis isn’t in
terested in being selected like a steer
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for slaughter. Laloosa wins the prize,
somewhat to the chagrin of Davis,
who is still interested in Annie, and
thus the triangle forms.
But the movie is much more than
a love interest. The movie is really
about America’s sport, and the love
players have for it, whether they
play in Little League, the minors or
the Major league. Most of the play
ers in the Carolina league will never
make it to “The Show,” as they call
the majors, but they play the game
season after season, because it’s their
life.
Tim Robbins gives a memorable
performance as “Nuke” Laloosa, the
young pitcher who couldn’t hit the
side of a barn but can throw halls at
95 mph. Averse to taking the advice
of Davis, whom he considers a has-
been, he learns the hard way that
there is more to being a pitcher than
winding up and throwing a ball. 1 lis
character is well-developed through
out, and is especially appealing in
the scene where he is called to the
majors, and is faced with the jeal
ousy of his teammates.
Sarandon is excellent in her por
trayal of Annie Savoy, the sexy-out-
not-cheap follower of the team. Al
though her southern accent may be
too thick to swallow at times, Annie
is the quintessential groupie, whose
main interest in life is the baseball
team: not only the players, but then
careers, and the team’s record. Go to
any ball game in any town in Amer
ica, and Annie Savoy will be there.
And of course, there's Kevin
Costner. Costner’s acting has gar
nered much acclaim lately, and this
effort is no exception. His character,
Crash Davis, is a little bit tired of al
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AUSTIN (AP) — State Trea
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week to deliver the keynote
speech at the Democratic Na
tional Convention, has gotten a
little coaching from the last per
son to make that speech — New
York Gov. Mario Cuomo.
Cuomo telephoned Richards
on Tuesday, the day after she was
chosen for the Atlanta address, to
offer his advice.
It was Cuomo’s electifying key
note speech to the 1984 conven
tion in San Francisco that
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prompted talk of a possible 1988
presidential bid.
Another call came from pro
ducers of the CBS-TV “Face the
Nation” program, which tenta-
tivly plans to include Richards in
the network’s Sunday morning
program. And on Tuesday, the
treasurer was up at 4 a.m. to pre
pare for a live appearance on the
“CBS Morning News.”
“It’s just incredible,” said Trea
sury spokesman Bill Cryer as he
read over a list of news organiza
tions seeking interviews.
TDC axes building supervision group
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — The
Texas Department of Corrections is
removing Brown & Root from su
pervising the building of new pris
ons, reportedly after the company
failed to advise officials of substan
tial changes in the estimated cost of
four proposed units.
Prison board Chairman Charles
Terrell of Dallas said Tuesday that
Houston-based Brown & Root,
headed by former TDC board chair
man T. Louis Austin, would not be
permitted to manage the construc
tion of two 2,250-bed, maximum-se
curity units that it had been hired to
oversee.
While Terrell declined to com
ment on the reasons for Brown &
Root’s dismissal, other sources told
the Dallas Times Herald and Hous
ton Post that prison officials are
blaming the company for faulty esti
mates on the cost of four 1,000-bed,
medium-security units.
Terrell said last week that contrac
tors’ bids on the first of the font
units were $3.5 million over the esti
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