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- <text id=91TT1802>
- <title>
- Aug. 12, 1991: The Sultan of Sweat
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 12, 1991 Busybodies & Crybabies
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 61
- The Sultan of Sweat
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- <p>By Alexander Tresniowski/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> "It's pretty sad when a person has to lose weight to play
- Babe Ruth," says John Goodman, the hefty actor best known as
- Roseanne Barr's huggable TV husband. Goodman worked off 60 lbs.,
- spent five months learning to bat and throw left-handed, and
- then sat through as many as two hours of makeup a day to
- portray the legendary slugger during a 20-year period. The Babe,
- due next year, is the actor's first dramatic starring film
- role, and word from the set of the just wrapped movie was that
- Goodman's transformation into the Bambino was positively
- Ruthian. "The Babe lived life full out," says Goodman.
- "Everything he did was big."
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- </body></article>
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