>Film Quote 1: "I could eat a can of Kodak, and puke a better
>movie!" - Lola Brewster (Kim Novak), THE MIRROR CRACK'D
>
>Film Quote 2: "I don't want your life!" - Jonathan 'Mox'
>Moxon (James Van Der Beek), VARSITY BLUES
>
>TV Quote: "Television in the old days was mysterious and
>full of snow, kind of like George W. Bush's past."
>Bill Maher, THE 1999 EMMY AWARDS
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:00:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: maillist@moviejuice.com
Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! - ADVANCE - FOR LOVE OF THE GAME - Jock Shock
FOR LOVE OF THE GAME û Jock Shock
by Mark Ramsey
<a href="http://www.moviejuice.com/1999/forlove.htm">Click here for the full review!</a>
http://www.moviejuice.com/1999/forlove.htm
September 17, 1999
Hey butterfingers, don't saw with your pitching arm. I repeat: Don't saw with your pitching arm! If For Love of the Game teaches us anything, it's that.
Fortunately, we can rebuild him. We can make him better than he was. Stronger, faster. With one eye for Lindsay Wagner and another that makes a pulsing beep as it zooms. As for the swelled head, well, that's beyond help.
If a movie has balls you'll find Kevin Costner in it. Baseballs, golf balls, and whatever those Rocky Mountain Oysters are between Sean Young's legs.
For Love of the Game is the final chapter in the Kevin Costner Tolkien Middle Earth Baseball Trilogy. You'll remember Kevin's earlier efforts: If You Build It James Earl Jones Will Come and Bull Durham.
Is it just me or is For Love of the Game missing a "the"? The studio suits told Entertainment Weekly the title rolls off the tongue easier this way, but I don't think so. Caramel corn rolls off my tongue; this kind of corn sticks in my craw.
This flick is for every gal who has ever loved a ballplayer who stares wistfully at the clouds over the park and every guy who has ever loved...well...Kelly Preston. Who wouldn't want to round that diamond, if you catch my drift? No wonder Kevin spends so much time on the mound.
For Love of the Game is one-part guy's sports flick and one-part girl's love story. And anyone who thinks those go together is free to suggest beauty tips at half-time. Hey, it's the "seventh inning stretch," not the "seventh inning primp." Picture Donna Mills and Markie Post hosting Fox Sports on Lifetime's "Television for Women" and you get a sense of the gender collision here. Should men and women sit on opposite sides of the aisle? It's love, it's game, it's love, it's game. Oh, to Hell with it.
You know, there's nothing like having sports announcer Vin Scully drone on about the theme of the movie as we're trying to watch it.
"Will this be the last pitch in Billy Chapel's life?" inquires Vin, as Kevin's sore pitching arm cartwheels off his shoulder and gut-wrenchingly arcs out of the park.
"He's pitching against time," shouts Vin, despite the fact that Time's clearly on second, Who's on first, and What's at bat.
"Can he push the sun back up in the sky and give us one more day of summer?" Probably not, Vin, but he can push your sorry ass right out that skybox window as I join the crowd in the "celebratory wave of joy."
Where'd all the people come from? With only a couple thousand extras in the ballpark, fancy computer graphics were used to magically fill out all the empty seats in the stands. Hopefully, Universal can do the same in the theater.
And what would a Costner movie be without controversy and friction? You see Kevin is in an exhibitionistic frenzy, fighting for your right to see his penis.
Now there's a right the founding fathers never intended to guarantee.
Thanks to some last minute cinematic circumcision, the world was spared Kevin's penis in widescreen - although, from what I understand, "pan-and-scan" is more than sufficient. In fact, I hear director Sam Raimi got the job done with "jostle-and-scan."
Kevin has accused Universal of making the cut to pander to the "biggest common denominator." Ironically, Kelly Preston reports the denominator's more common and not nearly as big as Kevin likes to think.
It seems a screening audience giggled when Kevin's ding-dong made its big screen bow. Is this every guy's worst nightmare, or what? "Say, Mabel, is that a fly on the projector?" Evidently, this is not the kind of bat-and-ball-swinging America wants to see in its baseball movies. At least the dynamic digit wasn't webbed, for God's sake.
Perhaps it wasn't Kevin's Little Billy itself that was so amusing, but the Groucho Marx moustache and glasses perched over it.
The world may never know.
Despite the best intentions, For Love of the Game is no field of dreams, although its heart is in the right place. "It doesn't matter if you win or lose," says Kevin, "just as long as you put everything out there."
Everything above the waist, anyway.
Copyright 1999 Mark Ramsey. All rights reserved. NO PORTION MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 07:59:00 -0700
From: ("David M Hoptman") <David.Hoptman@wellpoint.com>
Subject: [MV] Name That Movie
Here are the answers to the two movies from Monday, 13th September,
>1999:
>
>Answer to movie number one:
>The first movie for Monday was from 1951. Set in the early 1900s this
>film tells the tale of a gin drinking trader and a missionary who make
>odd companions for a boat trip down a dangerous river, which culminates
>in an attack on a German gunboat. This was filmed largely on location
>and is another multi-Academy Award(R) nominated film.
>
>This movie was "The African Queen" - which everyone who entered got
>right, for the first time ever. Directed by the legendary John Huston,
>this movie starred Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and Robert Morley
>and is remembered, mostly, for the famous "leech scene". Academy
>Award(R) nominations went to James Agee for his script, taken from the
>novel by C. S. Forester, John Huston for Best Director and Katharine
>Hepburn for Best Actress, while one award was received by Humphrey
>Bogart for Best Actor. Peter Viertel's book, "White Hunter Black Heart",
>which was filmed by Clint Eastwood, is basically about Huston during the
>making of this film, while, in 1987, Katharine Hepburn wrote a book
>about her experiences making this movie. Her book was titled "The Making
>of The African Queen, or How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and
>Huston and Almost Lost My Mind". This movie was filmed on location in
>the Belgian Congo.
>
>Answer to movie number two:
>The second movie for Monday was from 1978. This film tells the story of
>a sophisticated woman who is deserted by her husband, fights with her
>daughter and then finds herself taking up with two different men. The
>story is classed as pure woman's magazine fiction. Two of the cast of
>this movie went on to star in a television series together and also
>happen to be married to each other. It also has Academy Award(R)
>nominations to its' credit.
>
>This movie was "An Unmarried Woman", written and directed by Paul
>Mazursky and starring Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates and Michael Murphy. The
>Academy Award nominations went to Paul Mazursky for his script, Best
>Picture and to Jill Clayburgh for Best Actress. The two cast members who
>are married to each other and went on to star in a television series are
>Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker, who starred in "L. A. Law".
>
>The first movie for today is from 1958. It is the story of a retired
>police detective with a phobia, who is hired by an old school friend to
>keep an eye on his wife. Another case of the detective falling in love
>with the subject of his current case. She, apparently, falls to her
>death and it is then that the detective meets the girls' double. The
>script is taken from a novel.
>
>The second movie for today is from 1992. This is a true story of a
>couple who learn their child has an incurable, degenerative disease and
>how they turn the medical world on its' collective ear, trying to keep
>their child alive. Being that it is based on a true story, there are
>some gruesome medical scenes in this film, but it still managed to earn
>some Oscar nominations. The answers will be in Monday's edition. Good
>luck.
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:26:00 -0700
From: ("David M Hoptman") <David.Hoptman@wellpoint.com>
Subject: [MV] Film & TV Quotes
F I L M Q U O T E S :
> (Answers at the end)
>
>FILM QUOTE 1: "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled
>was convincing the world he didn't exist"
>(Thanks To Melissa)
>
>
>
>
>Clue 1: This actor won a Best Supporting Actor for his
>role in this movie
>
>
>
>Clue 2: The person who said this line has a new movie
>opening next month with Annette Bening.
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~
>
>FILM QUOTE 2: "You forgot to read your fortune cookie.
>It says, "You're sh** out of luck."
>
>
>
>
>
>Clue 1: This was the last of a popular movie franchise
