#laloosh

[racetobachelorisland]

JOHN BEHLMANN HIMBOS ARE BACK BABY!!!!

[thefantum1974]

Diligence when due diligence is due ...

In keeping with the origin of the fantum, and the continuing search for career extension activities, the search parameter is "announcer."

The return includes "Baseball PA Announcer (Seasonal)"

"Individual must have a good speaking voice and must be able to work all 70+ home games. Pay Rate: $50-75 per game based on experience.

"This is a seasonal position. Person needed to announce sponsored promotions and home and visitor players, etc. during all Durham Bulls home games."

Stadium (and promotional) Announcer for the honest-to-gosh, Bull Durham, Durham Bulls.

A $3500 paycheck for a memorable summer in North Carolina. A stretch of three months or so, to obtain a priceless memory, a story for the great grandkids, a "truth" to tell over beers with friends for many summers to come.

Living in a boarding house, surviving on stadium hot dogs, and Diet Pepsi. Rubbing elbows with the play-by-play and color announcers. Singing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game," played each evening and afternoon by the in-house organist. Watching in amazement as the next Ebby Calvin LaLoosh takes the mound, and throws a heater to Crash Davis behind the plate.

Hey! Imagine the job, imagine the play.

... the fantum

67 Days until Opening Day!

[ulkaralakbarova]

Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, “Nuke” Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie Savoy sets her sights on the two men. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Crash Davis: Kevin Costner Annie Savoy: Susan Sarandon Ebby Calvin ‘Nuke’ LaLoosh: Tim Robbins Skip: Trey Wilson Larry: Robert Wuhl Jimmy: William O’Leary Bobby: David Neidorf Deke: Danny Gans Tony: Tom Silardi Millie: Jenny Robertson Jose: Rick Marzan Nuke’s Father: George Buck Mickey: Lloyd T. Williams Self: Max Patkin Doc: Gregory Avellone Teddy (Radio Announcer): Garland Bunting Whitey: Robert Dickman Ed: Timothy Kirk Scared Batter: Don Davis Umpire: Stephen Ware Bat Boy: Tobi Eshelman Mayor: C.K. Bibby Sandy: Henry G. Sanders Ballpark Announcer: Antoinette Forsyth Cocktail Waitress: Shirley Anne Ritter Minister: Pete Bock Chu Chu: Alan Mejia Core Baseball Player: Sid Aikens Core Baseball Player: Craig Brown Core Baseball Player: Wes Currin Core Baseball Player: Butch Davis Core Baseball Player: Paul Devlin Core Baseball Player: Jeff Greene Core Baseball Player: Kelly Heath Core Baseball Player: Mo Johnson Core Baseball Player: Tim Kirk Core Baseball Player: Todd Kopeznski Core Baseball Player: John Lovingood Core Baseball Player: Eddie Matthews Core Baseball Player: Alan Paternoster Core Baseball Player: Bill Robinson Core Baseball Player: Dean Robinson Core Baseball Player: Tom Schultz Core Baseball Player: Sam Veraldi Core Baseball Player: ElChico Williams Film Crew: Editor: Adam Weiss Producer: Thom Mount Set Decoration: Kris Boxell Writer: Ron Shelton Executive Producer: David V. Lester Editor: Robert Leighton Original Music Composer: Michael Convertino Costume Design: Louise Frogley Producer: Mark Burg Casting: Bonnie Timmermann Production Design: Armin Ganz Art Direction: David Lubin Director of Photography: Bobby Byrne Stunt Coordinator: Webster Whinery Construction Coordinator: Jim Hill Makeup Artist: Cynthia Barr Music Supervisor: Danny Bramson Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Bob Minkler Sound Recordist: Steven B. Cohen Script Supervisor: Karen Golden Camera Operator: Richard Craig Meinardus Foley Artist: Paul Holzborn Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Robert Thirlwell First Assistant Camera: Robert Allan Guernsey Additional Photography: Charles Minsky Gaffer: John Ferguson Supervising Sound Editor: Larry Kemp Camera Operator: Eric Engler Sound Recordist: Larry Boudry Still Photographer: Joel David Warren Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Robert W. Glass Jr. Hairstylist: Leslie Ann Anderson Costume Supervisor: Deborah Latham Scenic Artist: John A. Kelly Music Editor: Ellen Segal Supervising Sound Editor: Lon Bender Title Designer: Dan Perri Poem: Walt Whitman Associate Producer: Charles Hirschhorn First Assistant Director: Ric Kidney Second Assistant Director: Nina K. Noble Key Dresser: Dwain Wilson Set Dresser: Polar Bear Shaw Set Dresser: Kim McClees Set Dresser: Robert Beck Set Dresser: Ron Servicky Second Assistant Camera: Perry Adleman Costumer: Alonzo Wilson Costumer: Robin Hill Seamstress: Selma F. Hill Assistant Makeup Artist: Doreen Van Tyne Assistant Editor: Steven Nevius Assistant Editor: Margaret Goodspeed Assistant Editor: Celeste Beard Production Coordinator: Janice F. Sperling Second Second Assistant Director: Donald J. Lee Jr. Sound Mixer: Kirk Francis Boom Operator: Mychal D. Smith Special Effects Technician: Vern Hyde Special Effects Technician: Jeff Hyde Local Casting: Karen Standard Sound Recordist: Michael Boudry Sound Editor: Neal Burger Sound Editor: Kevin Hearst Sound Editor: Lou Kleinman Sound Editor: Dan M. Rich Sound Editor: Jeff Watts Sound Editor: Lorna Anderson Sound Editor: Wylie Stateman ADR Supervisor: Devon Heffley Curry ADR Editor: Stan Gilbert ADR Editor: Frank Smathers Assistant Sound Editor: William Dotson Assistant Sound Editor: Scott Warner Foley Recordist: David W. Alstadter Foley Recordist: Steve Cohen ADR Mixer: Alan Holly Foley Mixer: Richard L. Morrison Foley Mixer:...

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O fraco time de beisebol Bull Durham contrata o iniciante Nuke LaLoosh. Crash Davis, um experiente jogador, é chamado para treiná-lo com o intuito de melhorar suas habilidades. Mas, quando os dois se envolvem em um triângulo amoroso com a torcedora Annie, o desempenho da equipe fica ameaçado.

[joshuamyra]

Bull Durham Trailer - Directed by Ron Shelton and starring Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl, William O'Leary. Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie Savoy sets her sights on the two men.

[mc-cards]

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[tcmparty]

@tcmparty live tweet schedule for the week beginning Monday, April 4, 2022. Look for us on Twitter…watch and tweet along…remember  to add #TCMParty to your tweets so everyone can find them :) All times are Eastern.

Friday, April 8 at 10:00 p.m. BULL DURHAM (1988) Every summer, an English teacher chooses one promising player from a losing minor league baseball team to educate and seduce.                                   

[bobisusu]

BULL DURHAM (1988) | EBBY CALVIN ‘NUKE’ LALOOSH / CRASH DAVIS MONTAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thoughtsthatstray]

Happy 32nd Anniversary to Crash/Nuke and the rest of the cast of “Bull Durham, which debuted in theaters on this day (6-15) in 1988. My god I feel old and yes he hit the fuckin’ bull, guy gets a free steak. 

[racetobachelorisland]

what the hell do they know?

they’ve never done this

workin’ like a farm boy

aint a lot of fun this

different back in highschool

different back in my school

I was such a big deal

jesus this is unreal

catcher with a big mouth

woman talkin voodoo

salamanders have nostrils

really I’ll be who knew?

OHHH BUT I CAN DOOOOO THIS

PITCHIN MY WAY THROUGHHH THISSSS

[nowholdthatposeforme]

                                            The 6th Annual Gentlemen’s Ball

1. Jennifer Balenciaga with Amiyah Scott (Mizrahi)

2. Rico “Lalooshe” Balenciaga, Icon Jack Mizrahi, and Jennifer Balenciaga 

All photos courtesy of Jennifer Balenciaga

[bookscoffeeandrain2]

I was going to start referring to myself as Nuke LaLoosh but Tumblr actually fixed my old account so here we are... Guess I'll hang on to this one a while just in case.

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[latenightcinephile]

#714: ‘Bull Durham’, dir. Ron Shelton, 1988.

Newsflash: America loves baseball. That's the message of the Kevin Costner vehicle Bull Durham, right from the opening moments. The camera pans tenderly across black-and-white photographs of famous moments in baseball history, while a gospel singer croons 'Yeah' in increasingly breathy tones. Annie (Susan Sarandon) provides the opening voice-over, explaining that while she has tried almost every religion, baseball is the only one that has provided her with a truly spiritual experience. It's this devotion to the sport that has her watching every game the Durham Bulls play, selecting one up-and-coming player from the team to sleep with each year, and expanding their minds.

So, baseball. Baseball is good. Baseball is life.

More than that, baseball is Kevin Costner: this is one of the five baseball films Costner has starred in. Here, he plays 'Crash' Davis, a one-time professional catcher who's returned to Durham to help foster a pitcher's talents enough to get him to the big leagues. Unfortunately, the pitcher is 'Nuke' LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), who has "a million-dollar arm but a five-cent head." Because Crash and Nuke are the two big players of the season, Annie invites them both over, but Crash announces that he is 'done with tryouts' and Nuke wins the girl (temporarily) by default. Both Annie and Crash spend the summer honing Nuke's talents through different but equally bizarre means - Crash through the tough love of undermining Nuke whenever he goes off-script, to the point of telling the opponents what pitches Nuke is about to throw, and Annie through a combination of garters and Walt Whitman.

It's pretty clear from about the middle of the film that Annie and Crash are the couple that are meant to be, and Nuke's career becomes the surrogate into which they can each pour the energies that should be directed towards the other. This becomes even more pronounced as Nuke's skills improve, sparking jealousy in Crash as it becomes apparent that Nuke doesn't respect his own talent, and frustration in Annie as Nuke becomes superstitious and refuses to sleep with Annie in case it jeopardises his progress. Finally, Nuke is called to the big leagues and the main obstacle to a relationship between Crash and Annie is removed.

What makes this match particularly interesting to me is that it's not a case of one of these two being right about Nuke's talent. Despite the weirdness of Annie's approach, it does seem to have a measurable impact on how Nuke plays, and there's none of the derision directed towards her that I'd expected from a film made in the 1980s. Ron Shelton's experiences as a minor-league player clearly were refreshingly unprejudiced (at least towards women), although sex with either of the two female leads is equated with any number of totems designed to bring good luck. It's part of how the film mythologises baseball: any superstition becomes true not because of its inherent merits, but because it is attached to baseball, which legitimises everything.

It's a little unusual for a film to be added to the list when it's this... traditional, and aside from it being a good sports film from the era of sports films, it's difficult to say what exactly sets it apart. What it did get me thinking about, though, was genre, and how ideas of 'comedy' and 'romantic comedy' have changed. Bull Durham has been held up as an example of sparkling comedy, but with the exception of a few moments of near-surreal humour, there aren't a lot of scenes geared specifically towards comedy. Comedy just isn't the point.

Applying the label 'romantic comedy' to the film seems equally tough - while Bull Durham is vaguely about the marriage of true minds (not just between Crash and Annie, but Millie and Bobby, the unlikely pair of baseball groupie and deeply-religious fielder), there's not really a deep conflict to be found. Annie doesn't need to see 'the error of her ways' because there is no error - she merely goes from one situation that works to another situation that she finds more satisfying. Crash tells her he's quitting playing, but that there's a team in California that could do with a manager (on the opposite coast!) In other words, the end of the film doesn't bring much of a sense of certainty, as though both protagonists go from miserable to happy. They just move from happiness to happiness plus satisfaction.

Since this film was made, of course, comedies and romantic comedies have both become more streamlined - a scene needs to build towards a joke or a romantic development and avoid wasting time. That's something that a lot of films from the late eighties seem to have in common: a more meandering approach to genre, where the tropes of a particular genre don't need to be applied nearly as rigorously or consistently to the work. Bull Durham does a great job of hitting the marks when it comes to the sports film genre, but those are not particularly nuanced tropes: a team looks like they might lose but then they win. Where this film really hits its comic stride is in the absurdities of the superstitions, and the inanities of a sport that sometimes involves a lot of standing around. It's not just Annie who is fixated on the superstitions of the game (as she points out, there are 108 beads on a rosary and 108 stitches on a baseball): a curse on Jose's glove threatens the most important game of the season, and Nuke worries about his sex life threatening his pitching streak. But baseball here also acts as a backdrop to life in America, something you can do while everything else goes on in your life.

This totemic, omnipresent quality provides two of the best direct jokes in the film. The first is a conference at the pitcher's mound that lasts forever: when the manager goes to find out what's up, he's told "Well, Nuke's scared because his eyelid's jammed and his old man is here. We need a live - was it a live rooster? We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose's glove, and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding. We're dealing with a lot of shit." The second is a radio announcer doing the old trick of getting his assistant to get a description of the game by phone, so he can make the foley effects and announce the game as though he were there.

It's these jokes that sum up what works best about the film - it feels charmingly old-fashioned, even though it's pretty unashamed in how it treats sex. It's good, innocent fun. You know, the kind Walt Whitman used to get up to.

[365days365movies]

Sports September I: Bull Durham (1988) - Recap: Part Two

This movie is...calmer than I expected, so far.

Don’t get me wrong, I like it! I actually like it a lot, and it’s genuinely making want to start watching baseball. But, honestly, from everything I’ve heard about this being the greatest baseball movie of all time, this is surprisingly small stakes. Y’know, there’s no major league team, no dramatic turn or climax, it’s just...baseball. And honestly....that’s actually very nice.

Seriously, the relatively small stakes of this story, as well as the focus of character development and interactions, make this a very interestingly intriguing film. It’s got a calm tone and focus, but it’s still a lot of fun, and makes you want to be in the stadium watching the Durham Bulls play. But I should save this for the Review, huh? Back to the movie!

SPOILERS AHEAD!!! AGAIN!!!

Recap: Part Two

Nuke Laloosh is on a winning streak! Annie’s garter belt, combined with his current belief that not having sex allows him to channel his energies into the game, appear to be paying off quite a lot. All the while, Crash is showing his own worth as an excellent player, beating minor league records of his own. He a Nuke still have a few clashes here and there, but it’s nowhere near as bad as before.

In fact, Nuke actually approaches Crash for advice. In response, Crash teaches him how to hold interviews for the press, teaching Nuke a bunch of overused clichés to tell the reporters when needed. Additionally, when Nuke intonates that he might cave in and have sex with Annie, Crash tells him not to.

Don’t fuck with a winning streak.

Baseball players are notoriously superstitious, so seems pretty authentic. This culminates in a conversation between Nuke and Annie that leads to Annie storming over to Crash’s place, frustrated and angrily. And in that argument, Crash reminds her of the importance of adhering to superstition in baseball, as those beliefs fuel a player’s positive performance, no matter what they are. So, Annie’s kinda fucked. In order for the Bulls to have a good season, she needs to not sleep with Nuke, to her sexual frustration. She can’t have Crash either, given the preexisting relationship thing.

But things go south for the Bulls anyway. Nuke’s dad visits a game, leading to his poor performance. Jose’s glove has been cursed by his girlfriend. Millie and Jimmy got engaged after talking for FIVE HOURS, throwing everybody into a tizzy. And finally, Crash gets into an argument with the umpire, calling him a cocksucker, which is apparently a big-ass no-no. I looked it up, and this is apparently true! Cursing at the umpire is a massive problem, and will result in a player being thrown out of a game. Huh. Again, this is making me even more interested in the sport.

That night, though, when Nuke brings his father to meet Annie, he gets a call. Turns out that he’s being asked to join the major leagues! Hot damn, lucky Nuke. This is the end of their relationship once and for all. Soon after, the overjoyed Nuke tries to tell Crash, but an extremely jealous (and drunk) Crash is...yeah, he’s being a dick. The argument between the two leads to Nuke punching him in the face, and to Crash giving him some advice the next morning, alongside an apology.

Look, Nuke, these big-league hitters are gonna light you up like a pinball machine for a while, all right? Don't worry about it. You be cocky and arrogant, even when you're gettin' beat. That's the secret. You gotta play this game with fear and arrogance....Fear and arrogance, you hayseed, not ignorance.

Millie and Jimmy get married on the mound in front of a crowd, and the group has a party. However, with Nuke now off the team, Crash is no longer needed as a catcher. With regret and little ceremony, Crash is released from the team, and replaced with a younger catcher. He puts his name in as a future manager, and he had a hell of a season...but this doesn’t change the fact that Crash is considered useless by the guys up top. Damn. That genuinely blows.

Crash, bereft, angry, and confused, wanders the streets of Durham that night. He eventually finds himself at a familiar house: Annie’s place. And yeah, with Nuke gone and Crash out of the league...time for the Inevitable Love Interest bell to finally get rung. And for once, I’m genuinely rooting for it, inevitable though it may be. And, uh...they fucking GO FOR IT. Seriously, you see glimpses of it, and it’s pretty intense. Also, it’s backed by the most ‘80s saxophone track I’ve ever heard in my goddamn life.

This is followed the next morning by making out on the breakfast table (and RUINING the cereal), and then an ENTIRE WEEKEND of sex. Which, yeah, isn’t completely insane or anything, but it’s also...a lot of sex, in a variety of locations. Hey, at least they’re having a good time, right?

The morning after, Crash leaves to join another team. While there, he officially breaks the minor league record for home runs throughout a career. Nuke, in the minor leagues, is seen interviewed by reporters, spitting the cliched platitudes that Crash told him to say. Also, his hair is spiked up, and he looks like a douche. Which, yeah, was probably on purpose.

And finally, at the end of all this, Crash returns to Annie’s doorstep.  He’s officially retired from the league, and he’s now considering going in as a minor league manager. And more importantly, he wants to be with her when he does it. And she seems to return the sentiment. As the two get together in the end, Annie sends us off with a Walt Whitman quote about baseball, and the two dance together in her living room.

...That was genuinely delightful. I mean that.

I understand why this is considered one of the best baseball films of all time...although I’m not yet sure I agree with that assessment. Yeah, I really do like this movie, but it didn’t really give me that umpf that I expect from sports movies. Maybe that makes it unique, and that uniqueness is meant to be treasured. Like I said, I quite like this film. But...do I love it? 

Well, to answer that, I guess I’ll have to give it a review...in a separate post. YUP! Gonna try doing that again! 

See you there!

[milliondollarbaby87]

Bull Durham (1988) Review

Bull Durham (1988) Review

Annie Savoy is well known around the minor-league baseball team Durham Bulls, as each season she picks a player to have an affair with and they always have the best season! This year is a little more complicated though when Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh an up and coming pitcher is her choice but she cannot help but think about Crash Davis the catcher assigned to him. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (more…)