Henry V

I just watched (some of) Bull Durham in the past couple of weeks (thanks, amych!) and I can note that 1. it is totally freaky to be able to pinpoint the location of almost every outdoor shot in the movie, which was in fact shot in Durham, 2. it is EVEN MORE FREAKY to find Kevin Costner sexy, still, even after knowing what he's done since, 3. Tim Robbins is almost unbearably watch-from-the-hall-y, and 4. Susan Sarandon, who was only 42 at the time, was hott, and is still hott now that she's 60, and she's older than my MOM. Also (5., if you're counting) Hollywood does a crap job of casting non-white people, which in a movie set in my city and about baseball players is especially jarring. There's like, one black and one hispanic in the whole thing, and the hispanic guy has a chicken bone cross he rubs on his bat for chrissakes.

1. it is totally freaky to be able to pinpoint the location of almost every outdoor shot in the movie, which was in fact shot in Durham,

At the time (this was a few years before I came here, so I only know this secondhand) there was apparently considerable angst about how they were going to show all this embarrassing old dusty dingy stuff and we're all about the Bright Shiny Industrial Parks now because we're the New South, Damn It. This town, not always so much with the getting it.

I still miss the whole scene at the old ballpark, which was amazingly like the movie.

Fun whiplash is trying to draw the map: like, she leaves the park, walks under the overhead walkway at the warehouses on Main, and somehow ends up in Old North Durham?

2. it is EVEN MORE FREAKY to find Kevin Costner sexy, still, even after knowing what he's done since,

I have to build a wall in my mind between this role and every single other thing in his career. It's the only way I can live.

3. Tim Robbins is almost unbearably watch-from-the-hall-y, and

And yet? Oddly hot, in spite of the dorkitude.

I think there may be a couple of black people (note: actual population, 40something %), but they're all wise old (possibly Magical Negro) ballplayer types, so there's no telling them apart.

I can't see how a film series based on international law is a good idea.

It's better than reading yet another case in a casebook. And I'm sure that this professor will be showing things like Dr. Strangelove to lighten things up. My DH and I watched Buffy and Angel on his couch every week, so I know him well.

I'm telling you, a formative-years viewing of The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (in which Sheen plays a totally creeptastic pedophile) can scar a girl for life.

I can understand that; it was the first film I ever saw Sheen in, and hoo-boy does that leave an impression. The film will also instill an unholy love of Jodie Foster if seen at an early age.

Kurt Russell was up for the Costner role in Bull Durham. I kind of like to contemplate this movie, in my head.

I would, but then I get afeared that the Hollywood Karma Machine would have put Costner in "Tombstone".

KR actually was a professional minor-league ballplayer.

I would, but then I get afeared that the Hollywood Karma Machine would have put Costner in "Tombstone".

Which means that Kurt would have been in WYATT EARP, I guess?

KR actually was a professional minor-league ballplayer.

Along with being a child/teen star? Wow, that's some early life.

I saw a bio on Russell the other night, where it was said the Bull Durham role was the one he really wanted to play, since he lost his dream of playing in the Majors.

And Costner wound up doing Wyatt Earp anyway, the same year Tombstone came out. I watched WE for the Quaid Doc Holiday, which was Oscar worthy, IMO. In fact, WE would have been a really good movie, if *someone*, anyone, would have cut 40 minutes of Costner closeups out of it.