iday • December 8, 1997
Lifestyles
professor retells humorous stories
Aggieland with Good Bull trilogy
)t a little story for ya’ Ags! It is
ibout bull — good bull and
ots of it. There was this man,
oyle, a professor of educa-
idministration and Class of
.0 Was full of good bull sto-
lad been telling them to his
•years, and quite frankly, she
■of hearing them.
told me to put them in a
o she wouldn’t have to hear
“nymore,” Hoyle said.
. that he did. Hoyle is the au-
Good Bull, Good Bull II and
lull III, books filled with hu-
t s stories about A&M.
r
/le played first base on the
outhwest Conference Cham-
'.ggie Baseball Team.
P84, he received the Award of
■from the American Baseball
|es Association. Hoyle has
_®dely recognized as an en-
jiing and informative speaker
ariety of topics.
.ove to tell stories and make
e laugh,” Hoyle said. “This is a
jok that makes you laugh and
your worries.”
*19S0, Good Bull: 30 Years ofAg-
\)ades was released and well
I by Aggies.
bcame popular with both
Ihts and former students all
ie world,” Hoyle said.
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ngs and the popularity
retty soon, he was getting
good bull stories from
nd the world.
1992, Good Bull II:
More Aggie Escapades was pub
lished. Soon, Hoyle couldn’t go any
where without somebody telling
him a story.
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Parents of the Year
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arents of the Year ‘98
Good Bull III: Even More Aggie
Escapades, was released the day be
fore Thanksgiving.
The book contains over 500 sto
ries about Aggies that Hoyle finds
humorous.
“It is the humor side of history
that no one has told,” Hoyle said.
Hoyle’s son, John R. Hoyle, Jr.,
Class of ’82, illustrated the book.
The book is endorsed by such
noteworthy alumni as Gene
Stallings, Billy Pickard and Lisa
Branch.
“I didn’t think anything could be
better than Good Bull II, but Good
Bull ///has it beat,” Stallings said.
Pickard said it is a must read for
Aggies of all ages.
Part of the royalties from the sale
of Good Bull III will come back to
A&M.
The remainder goes to a fund to
help Hoyle’s four grandchildren to
attend college.
Incidentally, the book is dedicat
ed to his grandchildren, who Hoyle
said will undoubtedly attend Texas
A&M. Over Thanksgiving he signed
a copy for all of them to take home.
Hoyle said his daughter Laura,
Class of‘84, phoned him the other
day and told Hoyle his grandson
Michael would not go to bed until
she read him one of his grandfa
ther’s good bull stories.
She said when he gets up in the
morning, he comes downstairs,
stands in front of the television and
does commercials promoting his
I grandfather’s book.
“I would love to be there to hear
it,” Hoyle said.
Cast turns the thunderstorm
potential of John Grisham’s
The Rainmaker into a drizzle
The Rainmaker
Starring Matt Damon
and Danny DeVito
Directed by
Francis Ford Copolla
Rated R
Playing at Post Oak Cinema
★★★ 1/2 (out of five)
T J he Rainmaker is a legal
little fish in a big pond sto
ry from the master of law,
action and suspense stories,
John Grisham.
The story is sweet and simple
and feels as down home as
Memphis, where the story is set.
However, it falls short on punch
and leaves the viewer feeling as
if they have been watching a le
gal show on the tube.
The movie chronicles the life
of young lawyer Rudy Baylor,
played by Matt Damon, as he
struggles to establish himself in
the law profession.
He lands his first job with J.
Lyman Stone and Associates
where he learns the art of ambu
lance chasing.
Danny DeVito lends his typi
cal smart-alecky performance as
Deck Shifflet, a fellow associate
in the firm, who provides naive
Baylor with the definition of a
hustler cum lawyer.
When the head of the firm,
“Bruiser” Stone, played by Mick
ey Rourke, is investigated by the
FBI for tax evasion, among other
charges,Baylor and Shifflet begin
their own partnership to avoid
any legal entanglements.
Armed with three of Baylor’s
cases and Shifflet’s sway-lawyer
abilities, they set out to face the
world.
While attending a law semi
nar, Baylor meets Mrs. Black
whose son is dying of leukemia.
The Black’s are a poor family
who pay their health insurance
regularly.
When there son is diagnosed
with curable Leukemia, the insur
ance agency denies their claim.
This is where Baylor steps in
and decides to take on the case.
Baylor holds a case in his
hands that will put them into a
legal battle against a rich insur
ance company.
Rainmaker is packed with
many actors providing excellent
cameo performances.
Randy Travis appears briefly
as an aggressive potential juror.
Andrew Shue leaves the norm
of his sensitive Billy in “Melrose
Place” and supplies an excellent
but chilling wife-battering hus
band to Claire Danes.
Roy Scheider (Jaws, “Seaque-
st”) also joins the cast as C.E.O of
the insurance agency, and Dan
ny Glover leads the cameo cast
as a judge.
However, the lead actors do
not come through, with the ex
ception of John Voight’s poignant
character Leo Drummin.
Voight is no stranger to out
standing performances and his
character delivers the haunting
cruelness of a ruthless, rich lawyer.
DeVito lends his abilities to a
supporting role, but his perfor
mance is predictable as a cutesy
lawyer who knows how to worm
out of the system and provide
little sarcastic remarks.
Damon is a new face to the
screen and can be described as a
cross between Chris O’Donnell’s
boyish charm and Tom Cruise’s
intensity.
Damon has been receiving
many rave reviews for is upcom
ing performance in Good Will
Hunting but does not add elec
tricity to Rainmaker, only a sizzle.
Damon’s acting does do the
job and brings tears to the eyes
of audience members.
When the credits roll up at the
end, it is surprising the movie
was made by a phenomenal di
rector, Francis Ford Copolla.
Rainmaker does not live up to
the expectations of a Copolla film.
Rainmaker is a good film to
see on those days where an audi
ence member is upset with the
world and need something to
make them feel good.
The acting, set and story
come together to produce a
warm, fuzzy-feeling movie, but
they do not live up to the mys
tique of a Copolla film or a Gr
isham novel.
— By Marium Mohiuddin
^ People in the News
Squiggy joins cast of
“Bold and the Beautiful”
NEW YORK (AP) — He must be bold.
David L. Lander, best known as Squiggy on “Laverne
and Shirley,” is joining the cast of the soap opera, “The
Bold and the Beautiful.”
“People can’t quite believe I’m on a soap, least of all
this one,” Lander says in the Dec. 13-19 TV Guide.
Starting with the Christmas Eve episode, he’ll be
seen as Dr. Martin Guthrie — brother of Mike, the show’s
diabolical security guard.
The South setting for
Collins’ holiday special
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Christmas is extra special be
low the Mason-Dixon line for Judy Collins.
“Christmas is a very big deal in the South,” the folk
singer said Friday. “It’s in our bones.”
That’s why she went to the Blue Ridge Mountains to
make her holiday TV special, “A Judy Collins Christmas
at the Biltmore Estate,” which airs Monday on the A&E
cable channel.
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