When i always was intrigued with the play lisostrata by aristophanes. The women withhold their sexual favors until the men decide to stop going to war. So i thought, let me put that in the minor leagues. I wish i could fitch things like that to dy. A couple of loose ideas that seem to be in conflict, that's where i start. You need the conflict fore you have nothing.
Ron Shelton is an Academy Award–nominated writer and director, former shortstop for the Bluefield Baby Birds, and author of a humdinger of a new memoir called "The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham — Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit." On the show today: How Ron sold the movie before he had a story, wrote the script without a plan, played ball with Kevin Costner, and got directorial pointers from Susan Sarandon.
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