While Steve Nebraska was Shohei Ohtani before Ohtani became a baseball legend, The Scout touches on mental health in baseball. The Scout has its roots in an article written by Spink Award winner Roger Angell in The New Yorker. Once optioned by Andrew Bergman’s producing partner, it went through a number of rewrites and actors between 1983 and the theatrical release in 1994. It’s hard to imagine Peter Falk, Walter Matthau, or Rodney Dangerfield in…
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The Oscar may have been originally produced as a drama but the film will forever be remembered as a campy comedy about Oscar night. You’d be forgiven if you thought Allan Carr was involved with the film. After all, the Grease producer produced one of the worst shows in its history. But just as that night effectively ended his career, this film basically did the same for director Russell Rouse and screenwriter Clarence Greene. They…
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