Archive for November, 2016
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The Night Baseball Got Born AgainPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaTo paraphrase what David Mamet once said about the theater—Baseball is always dying and always being reborn. The Chicago Cubs winning the final game of a best of seven game World Series was the stuff of high drama. A couple of years ago I wrote a post called Screenwriting and the Super Bowl. This post […] The Cleveland Indians host the Chicago Cubs tonight in the deciding World Series game. The Indians haven’t won a World Series since 1948 and the Cubs since 1908. And both teams also have a bit of Hollywood history with Major League (1989) written by David S. Ward and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) written by […] “In the entire history of theater, it would be difficult to think of a play that’s more purely American than Bleacher Bums.” Los Angeles Times review If the Chicago Cubs lose tonight there will be some happy Cubs fans. That’s not a typo. Yes, the Cleveland Indians fans will be happy if there team wins […] |
