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Cinematical's Seven Sexy Sporting Studs
Filed under: Sports », Fandom », Cinematical Seven »
I must have had too many cups of coffee when I agreed to take on a Cinematical Seven covering the hunks of sports films. (Erik had the easy job, picking the Hottest Sports Girls.) Trying to pick the studs is like having hundreds of 4-star, wonderful movies thrown on your desk and being asked to pick the 7 best. Yeah, right! No problem! To make the task easier, I decided to pick a range of sports, and never double up on one particular type. That cut out a whole slew of possibilities, and what I came up with is what you see below.
What have I learned from picking the Seven Sexy Sporting Studs from cinema? The best of the best (pun intended) were in the '80s and '90s. I also learned that you should never share the list with a friend beforehand -- they'll remind you who you're forgetting, and that's why you'll find one tie down below. Enjoy!
The Eight Men Out Team
The only thing I knew when I took on this assignment was that Eight Men Out was going to be featured. Bull Durham is great and all, but this is the baseball movie. It's John Sayles, and it has the best baseball team to ever make it on the screen. They might have let their morals loosen a little, but they still kept their looks. Foolishly, I tried to pick between John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney, and David Strathairn. Forget that! I'm taking the easy way out. Cusack's Buck Weaver was super cute as a "future jailbird," Charlie was always tasty in those days, and it's beyond me why women weren't falling all over David Strathairn the minute he jumped into film with Return of the Secaucus Seven, or any of the bigger movies that were soon to come. And Sweeney was cute, too, in that dorky way.
Redford Plays Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers
Filed under: Drama », Casting », Deals », Scripts », DIY/Filmmaking », Newsstand »
After delving into the world of high school basketball in Coach Carter, director Thomas Carter is switching gears and heading for the baseball diamond. Currently, he's tapped to helm an untitled biopic about baseball legend Jackie Robinson and, apparently, Robert Redford (in his first baseball-related role since The Natural) has signed on to play Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey.
The script will be penned by Ali scribes Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele, and the film will revolve around Robinson's struggles (which "include death threats, beanballs, abuse from fans, a rebellion by some of his teammates and the threat of a strike by the St. Louis Cardinals") as the first African-American in Major League Baseball. Production is expected to begin next March assuming Jackie Robinson himself is cast. Most likely that part with either go to Will Smith or Jamie Foxx, as they seem to be the go-to guys for these sorts of roles. Any other actors who you feel would be good as the legendary baseball hero?
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