Bull Durham
In baseball, you dont know nothing.
--Yogi Berra
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Whoever wants to know the heart and
mind of America had better learn
baseball.
--Jacques Barzun
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You could look it up.
--Casey Stengel
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Titles over--
FADE IN:
A series of still photos. Black and white. Ancient.
BABE RUTH SWINGS -- An icon of American history. His giant
upper body balanced delicately on tiny ankles and feet. Th
Lady: Mummys going to the beauty parlour darling. But Im leaving you with your favorite friend Roger. Hes going to take very very good care of you. Because if he doesnt, hes going back to the science lab!
Roger: Plplpllllease! Dont worry. What ever you say! Yes maam. Aye aye sir. Oke dokey. Why, Ill take care of him like he was my own brother. Or my own sister. Ow! Or my brothers sister. Or my se
His is the only one still occupied, and it doesnt look that permanent. In the window is a cardboard, handwritten sign that reads "Kwans Shaolin Kung Fu". What remains visible behind the poster and the security grate is an IMPRESSION of people moving and milling around.
INT. WORKOUT AREA - SAME NIGHT
ESTABLISHING SHOT OF KWANS SHAOLIN KUNG FU SCHOOL.
The students are doing their own thing, and the
It is 7:14 P.M., Monday, September 22, 1975, and we are watching the network news programs on CBS, NBC, ABC and UBS-TV, the network of our story. The AUDIO is OFF; and head shots of WALTER CRONKITE, JOHN CHANCELLOR, HOWARD K. SMITH and HARRY REASONER, and of course, the anchorman of our network, HOWARD BEALE, silently flit and flicker across the four television screens, interspersed with the news
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Officer And A Gentleman Script
Passengers arriving
on Philippine Airlines flight
welcome to Manila
International Airport.
Hey.
Hey, kid!
- Are you Zack?
- Yes, sir.
Im Byron. Nice to meet you.
- Come on, lets get your bags, OK?
- Yes, sir.
Take your jacket off, kid.
Its hot here.
This is the PI,
the Philippine Islands.
Zack, Im sorry ab
First, a sky over chimney pots and church towers, with masses of thundercloud and a black cloud moving toward the sun.
Cut to:
Piccadilly Circus, London. Flower sellers (women in shawls with baskets) seated round the base of the Eros monument. Among them Liza Doolittle, the only young one. The rest are elderly or middle aged. All, including Liza, are too poorly clad and dirty to be attractive. L
We are moving through a small airfield full of parked light planes. There are no people around. We move through the cluster of planes towards a hangar on the edge of the field.
INT. HANGAR - DAY
We are still moving through light planes, but now we are inside the hangar. Some of the planes have their engine covers open, parts strewn around. Others are partially covered with tarps or have sections
THE SAME SCENE; THE SAME SHOTS. Suddenly time RUSHES FORWARD. Als voice squeaks, the action accellerates.
LEADER (VO)
Run past this stuff.
THE VISUALS SPEED EVEN FASTER. SOMEBODY is running the tapes of
the EXPERIMENT right before the attack...FAST FORWARD.
INTRUDER
You wont believe this.
INT. LAB - The INTRUDERS SLOW the tape and watch with interest.
CU.- THE BEAKER on the pedestal surrounded by
It Runs In The Family Script
Look over my right shoulder.
Good.
Look over my left shoulder.
Very good.
You know, Mr Gromberg,
youre not gonna want to hear this,
but for a man of your age,
less than year after a stroke,
you are in remarkable shape.
My damn ticker - boom, boom,
boom, boom - a mile a minute.
Well, your cardiogram
showed no abnormalities.
Blood pressure high?
Your blood pressure?
Bet
CHARADE
FADE IN (BEFORE TITLES)
1. EXT. FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE -- DUSK
Silence -- complete silence for the urbanite, though the
oncoming darkness is punctuated by the sounds of farm
country -- a few birds, a distant rumble of thunder from
some heavy clouds on the horizon, a dogs barking.
CAMERA PANS the green, squared-off flatland, lit only by
a fine sunset in its final throes. Then, gradually,
start