Ran soaked it all in. He found a copy of the carolina league record book and started flipping through it. A name stopped him dead in his tracks: Lawrence crash davis. Crash davis felt like someone i knew, someone i could write. Now, all he needed was the woman. The movie story teller his lisistrata. I may not have had a story ronwright, but i had a pitcher and a catcher, and they even had good, solid baseball names. Ebby calvin nuk la louche, even better.
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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