Kurt Russell was up for the Costner role in Bull Durham. I kind of like to contemplate this movie, in my head.
Yeah... That went well.
Mal ,'Trash'
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Beverly - Dec 08, 2006 6:46:24 am PST #6359 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Aims - Dec 08, 2006 6:47:18 am PST #6360 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I would, but then I get afeared that the Hollywood Karma Machine would have put Costner in "Tombstone".
Tom Scola - Dec 08, 2006 6:48:24 am PST #6361 of 10001
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KR actually was a professional minor-league ballplayer.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 08, 2006 6:50:55 am PST #6362 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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.
Beverly - Dec 08, 2006 6:52:28 am PST #6363 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
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.
Aims - Dec 08, 2006 6:52:55 am PST #6364 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Which means that Kurt would have been in WYATT EARP, I guess?
There was no such movie as "Wyatt Earp". None. No movie. None.
Welcome to AimeeLand! Where horrible "westerns" such as Wyatt Earp and Posse do not exist.
Amy - Dec 08, 2006 6:56:09 am PST #6365 of 10001
Because books.
The film will also instill an unholy love of Jodie Foster if seen at an early age.
Yup!
KR actually was a professional minor-league ballplayer.
And a child/teen star? Wow, that's some early life.
I think when he started outgrowing the child roles, he got into baseball. I don't remember the reason why he gave up baseball to go back to acting, but I'm glad he did.
t /irrationally devoted Snake Plissken fan
Beverly - Dec 08, 2006 6:56:13 am PST #6366 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Well, there was the Quaid, and Rossellini, and Catherine O'Hara, and, and, and a whole raft of wonderful actors in really good parts in WE. Remove the dark pall of Costner presence onscreen and off, and it would have been a good movie.
Aims - Dec 08, 2006 6:58:09 am PST #6367 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Val Kilmer = The One True Doc Holiday.
What cracked me up is I went to Tombstone, AZ a couple of years after both films came out, and while there were "Tombstone" pictures and posters up EVERYWHERE, there was NOTHING of "Wyatt Earp".
Frankenbuddha - Dec 08, 2006 7:05:16 am PST #6368 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"Snake Plissken? I heard you were dead."