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Former slick-fielding, light-hitting minor league infielder Ron Shelton first tried his hand at sculpture before establishing himself as a screenwriter in the early 1980s and as a leading writer ...
Oct 6, 2023 · Among the few guarantees in life is that on any survey of great sports films, Ron Shelton’s name will appear more than once. The résumé of the minor-league ballplayer turned screenwriter and director boasts what is arguably the definitive baseball movie with Bull Durham (1988), along with loquacious, cockeyed looks at basketball (White Men Can’t […]
Jul 7, 2022 · Ron Shelton on Making Bull Durham, Getting Threatened by Thomas Pynchon, and Why Baseball is the Most Literary Sport Three Decades Later, the Writer and Director Looks Back at How It All Got Started
Director: Ron Shelton | Stars: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson Votes: 58,252 | Gross: $50.89M Kevin Costner at his funniest and most charismatic in Bull Durham, a film that's as wise about relationships as it is about minor league baseball.
About Ron Shelton. RON SHELTON’s Bull Durham launched a writing-directing career that includes White Men Can’t Jump, Blaze (1989), Cobb, and Tin Cup, among other films. He also directed Jordan Rides the Bus, a documentary about Michael Jordan’s year in the minor leagues. A former professional baseball player, he holds…
Jul 5, 2022 · While chasing through the white knuckle pace of movie production, Ron Shelton somehow finds that strand of DNA in all of us that roots for the man at the plate as he chases love, success, good scotch, high fiber, and the hanging curveball.” --Jason Reitman, writer-director of Thank You for Smoking; Juno; Up in The Air; and Young Adult "In 1988, Ron Shelton wrote and directed Bull Durham ...
Ron Shelton (s. 15. syyskuuta 1945) on muun muassa urheiluaiheisia elokuvia tehnyt yhdysvaltalainen ohjaaja ja käsikirjoittaja. Shelton syntyi Kaliforniassa neljästä veljeksestä vanhimpana ja opiskeli Arizonan yliopistossa sekä Westmont Collegessa. Hän pelasi myös baseballia, mutta ei yltänyt MLB-tasolle.
