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SUMMARY:The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham
LOCATION:Buena Vista Branch Library\nBuena Vista Branch Library
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DESCRIPTION:In this special event for both baseball fans and aspiring film
 makers\, Ron Shelton tells you how he made his classic baseball film. Lear
 n the improbable--often miraculous--story of how movies get made!.\nhttps:
 //burbank.libnet.info/event/7089592
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>His memoir\,<em><strong> The Church of Bas
 eball</strong>\,&nbsp\;</em>is director Ron Shelton's affectionate ode to 
 baseball and to moviemaking.</p>\n<p>His breakthrough feature film\, <stro
 ng><em>Bull Durham</em></strong>\, "maybe the best baseball movie ever" (D
 avid Thomson) is a favorite with fans of the game. His script was nominate
 d for an Academy Award. In conversation with actor Robert Wuhl (the assist
 ant team manager Larry Hockett in some of the film's most memorable scenes
 ) Shelton will share how he got this film made\, a hit movie that led to a
  career that included many other memorable sports moves including\, <stron
 g><em>White Men Can't Jump</em>\, <em>Cobb</em>\, <em>Tin Cup</em>\,</stro
 ng> and the documentary <strong><em>Jordan Rides the Bus</em></strong>. Ba
 seball fans and aspiring filmmakers will not want to miss this event!</p>\
 n<p><strong><em>"Ron Shelton hears America singing\, schmoozing\, and swea
 ring. His writing-directing debut\, Bull Durham (1988) transported fans in
 to the offbeat mystique and comic muck of baseball...Shelton's new memoir\
 , The Church of Baseball\, does for filmmaking what Bull Durham did for th
 e national pastime: it demystifies the craft\, pillories the business\, an
 d celebrates the calling with wit and passion..Shelton's prose is as natur
 al as his dialogue\, and he conjures characters with casual mastery...The 
 book takes us inside his screenwriting process as his characters emerge wi
 th distinct voices and signature first lines..In The Church of Baseball\, 
 as in Bull Durham\, Shelton riffs on life in the American grain\, and scal
 es the heights of the homegrown surreal. Like Mark Twain\, he reveals an u
 nsentimental education that reads like a robust and impudent yarn."</em></
 strong> Michael Sragow\, <strong><em>Air Mail</em>.</strong></p>\n<p><stro
 ng><em>"A filmmakers memoir about the making of one of the best sports mov
 ies of all time. Shelton's book is not simply a jaunty recollection of his
  directing debut\, with all its attendant breakthroughs and headaches. The
  author\, who displays sheer\, unadulterated love for this subject\, also 
 delivers a savvy\, unusually informative tutorial on how to take a motion 
 picture from the concept stage\, to script development\, casting\, product
 ion\, and post production."</em> <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong>\; Starre
 d Review.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Copies of <em>The Church of Baseball</em>
 &nbsp\;will be for sale at this event\, and a book signing will follow the
  program. Your purchase of books support the Friends of the Burbank Public
  Library. </strong></p>\n<p><strong>Only <em>The Church of Baseball</em> w
 ill be signed at this event. Please do not bring other books or memorabili
 a to be signed.&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><stro
 ng><img src="https://burbank.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/burbank/ba
 seball_2.jpg" width="397" height="260" alt="" /><img src="https://burbank.
 libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/burbank/baseball_1.jpg" width="260" hei
 ght="260" alt="" /></strong></p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://burbank.libnet.info/eve
 nt/7089592
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