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  Bull Durham
Bull Durham was charging down upon him and close at his heels were thirty-two sharp horned, wicked-hooved, guess we had you fooled and now we're gonna stomp you, cows with their heads lowered, tails raised, and a new mission in life.
Bull Durham was so angry that Louie had gotten away the he began to pummel the trees' trunk with his head and commenced stripping away the bark with his teeth.
Bull Durham and his thirty-two team assault force slowly tired of their sport and meandered off to find some isolated hollow in which to bed down for the night.
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  Durham, North Carolina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Durham originated in 1853 with the search for a suitable railroad depot for the North Carolina Railroad between Wilson and Hillsborough.
Trinity College, established in Durham in 1892, would be transformed into Duke University in 1924 on the promise of a large endowment of money from James B. Duke should the name of the university be changed to "Duke University" to honor his father, Washington Duke.
Durham's growth began to rekindle during the 1970s and 1980s, with the construction of multiple housing developments in the southern part of the city, nearest Research Triangle Park, and the beginnings of downtown revitalization.
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 Bull Durham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bull Durham became a minor hit when released, and has since been considered one of the best, if not the best, sports movie ever made.
Durham Athletic Park was, of course, used for most of the baseball action.
Like the Hollywood Sign, this Durham Bull was not originally intended to be a long-lasting artifact, and was eventually replaced by a sturdier version.
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 Bull Durham (1988)
I think that's largely why Bull Durham was successful; it was a sports movie that also appealed to a female audience, since the baseball aspects of the film were incidental to the relationships between the three leads.
Bull Durham remains one of the best baseball-related flicks ever due to the vivid characters and the crisp and realistic portrayal of life in the minor leagues.
Bull Durham appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
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 Bull Durham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bull Durham is a 1988 American movie about love and baseball.
Bull Durham stars Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins.
It depicts the players and fans of a minor league baseball team in Durham, North Carolina.
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 The DVD Journal | Reviews : Bull Durham: Special Edition
As a signal that Shelton was having none of that in Bull Durham (his debut as a director), when veteran catcher Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) first steps up to bat for the Bulls, a wide-eyed boy hands him a rag for his bat and asks the minor league veteran to get a hit.
When the Durham Bulls bring him in to shepherd and mentor an undisciplined rookie pitcher, Crash understands that his oft-unrequited love for the game of baseball has finally jilted him for a younger player.
Bull Durham is a loving and poignant look at the far-from-star-studded athletes who play minor league sports and the dedicated fans who delight in the pure art of sport.
www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/b/bulldurham_se.shtml   (672 words)

  
 DVD REVIEW: BULL DURHAM
"Bull Durham" may take place in the minor leagues, but the film is Major League all the way.
There are so many memorable moments in "Bull Durham." Add them up and what you get is a great film that proves that movies with a sports theme can succeed at the box office.
Shelton feels that time and money constraints, plus "Bull Durham" being his first film as a director, led to more compromises than he was happy with.
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 Origin of Bullpen
At one time most ballparks had ads on the outfield fences and Bull Durham was always near the spot where the relief pitchers warmed up.
The next year with nearly 150 Bull Durham signs being hit 85 times, $4,520 in cash and more than 10,000 pounds of tobacco was given out.
Another theory likens the relief pitchers to the reserve bulls in bullfighting, who are pinned nearby the arena should the starting bull be deemed unable to fight.
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 Bull Durham
Bull Durham is a breezy, elegant essay on sports and love.
Nuke Laloosh is a wild, untamed minor league rookie with arm powerful enough to cruise through eighteen strikeouts in his debut for the Carolina league Durham Bulls.
Every year Annie picks one Durham Bull for a special bonding, sharing her body and her passion to the tune of 144 games.
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 'Bull Durham'
Her pick for the current year is a fireballin' flake named Ebby Calvin LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), a still-wet-behind-the-ears bonus baby with "a million-dollar arm and a five-cent head" who's been sent to the hometown Durham Bulls for a little seasoning.
What "Bull Durham" plunges us deep into is the sentimental notion, dearly held by die-hard fans, that baseball is more than a mere game; that it is profound, metaphysical, paradigmatic.
Bull Durham, at area theaters, is rated R and contains some adult situations and language.
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 Durham Bulls | Durham Bulls Athletic Park
The Durham Bulls Athletic Park (DBAP) was designed by HOK Sport + Venue + Event, architects of Camden Yards in Baltimore, Jacobs Field in Cleveland, Coors Field in Colorado along with many other new stadiums opened in the past 10 years.
Durham Bulls Athletic Park is located in downtown Durham and can be accessed from the Durham Freeway.
This Bull was modeled after the bull used in the 1987 film, Bull Durham.
www.durhambulls.com /stadium/athletic_park.html   (439 words)

  
 Bull Durham - Rotten Tomatoes
Durham is a decent enough way to pass away a few hours on a weekend, especially if you love the game, but it ain't gonna change your life.
Bull Durham is a film with spring fever, a giddy, playful look at life in baseball's minor leagues.
Bull Durham, the new baseball movie starring Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon, eases up on you, lazy as a cloud, and carries you off in a mood of exquisite delight.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/bull_durham   (661 words)

  
 Bull Durham Movie -The 80s Rewind «
"Bull Durham" is a story about the Durham Bulls, a struggling minor league team, and the numerous characters that comprise and support the team.
"Bull Durham" is filled with great supporting characters that are just as well-developed as the principals, witty dialogue, great cinematography, a bit of existentialist humor and an involving plot.
When the announcer refers to the Durham Bulls as "The Greatest Show on Dirt," that is actually the motto that is inscribed across the archway as you enter the stadium.
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 DVD Verdict Review - Bull Durham: Special Edition
Makes sense to me. Truth be told and digging a little underneath the surface, Bull Durham does get all fancy thinking with its portrayal of Costner as the father figure, Sarandon as the mother figure, and Robbins as the son who is educated by both.
It is tough to talk about Bull Durham and not mention the late Trey Wilson (Raising Arizona) and Robert Wahl (Batman) as the Bulls manager and pitching coach.
Bull Durham is given first class treatment by MGM and ranks as a movie that belongs on just about everyone's DVD shelf.
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 The Flyball Dogs - Bull Durham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He is an American Pit Bull Terrier rescued from a shelter in Bowling Green, KY through the web site Pit Bull Rescue Central.
Durham is a lot of dog in a little package.
Sadly, Bull Durham was diagnosed with elbow dysplasia as an adolescent, with marked arthritis in one elbow and mild arthritis in the other.
www.flyballdogs.com /alaska/dogs/durham.html   (101 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - DVD, Movie, Video: Bull Durham, Kevin Costner, DVD, Wide Screen / Pan & Scan / Dolby ...
Bull Durham recounts the travails of North Carolina’s Durham Bulls, a bush-league baseball team hoping that recently signed pitcher Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) will lead the club to victory.
Crash Davis (Kevin Costner, showcasing his Midwestern charm) is a perennial Minor Leaguer assigned to the Durham Bulls, a hapless team with a long tradition of mediocrity.
Bull Durham is a witty, sexy comedy about America's two favorite things, baseball and sex.
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 Bull Durham starring Kevin Costner on DVD review on AudioRevolution.com
"Bull Durham" actually has sex on its mind as much as it does pitchers and catchers, but writer/director Ron Shelton contends that lovemaking and sport are irrevocably intertwined.
The minor league Durham Bulls team get a new catcher, "Crash" Davis (Kevin Costner), a one-time major leaguer who’s on his way down, and a new pitcher, Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), whose arm is as impressive as his mind is flaky.
Mostly, though, "Bull Durham" is a fine film, brought to DVD in a decent transfer with some great extras.
www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/bulldurham.shtml   (897 words)

  
 Durham, NC | Group Tours | Durham History
In 1701, Durham’s beauty was chronicled by the explorer John Lawson, who called the area “the flower of the Carolinas.” During the mid-1700’s, Scots, Irish, and English colonists settled on land granted to John Carteret, Earl of Granville, by King Charles I (for whom the Carolinas are named).
After the ceasefire in Durham, Yankee and Rebel troops celebrated together and discovered Brightleaf tobacco—with a taste that led to the ultimate success of Washington Duke and his family and spawned one of the world’s largest corporations (which included American Tobacco, Liggett and Meyers, R.J. Reynolds, and P. Lorillard).
Durham Bibliography compiled by staff of the Durham County library.
www.durham-nc.com /planners/group_tours/durham_history.php   (1057 words)

  
 Bull Durham News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bull Durham News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
"Bull Durham" was seemingly made with a cosmic destiny: to be one of those movies that bars play at night with the sound off.
Durham Athletic Park became perhaps the most famous minor league ballpark in history, thanks to a 1988 movie called Bull Durham.
www.topix.net /movies/bull-durham   (660 words)

  
 Bull Durham: Special Edition (1988)
Bull Durham appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 and in a fullscreen rendition on this DVD-14; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
Bull Durham displayed no glaring concerns, but a mix of minor issues caused me to lower my rating.
There are both the teaser and the standard theatrical trailer for Bull Durham, and we also get promos for MGM’s special edition DVDs of Rocky, When Harry Met Sally, and The Terminator.
www.dvdmg.com /bulldurham_se.shtml   (2272 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Bull Durham: Special Edition (Widescreen/Full Screen): DVD: Ron Shelton,Greg Avelone,Garland Bunting,Kevin ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In Bull Durham, baseball is a religion, at once sacred and profane, simple and complicated.
The setting for this film with the minor league Durham Bulls works, and works perfectly, but the characters, especially among the central love triangle, could just as easily have been traveling salesmen or race drivers or con artists or gangsters.
Every year she selects one member of the Durham Bulls to sleep with, and teach him about the finer things in life.
www.amazon.ca /Bull-Durham-Special-Widescreen-Screen/dp/B00005V9HG   (2399 words)

  
 TheHistoryNet | Vietnam | James P. 'Bull' Durham: True Balladeer of the Vietnam War
Former 'Puff the Magic Dragon' gunship pilot James P. 'Bull' Durham is a true balladeer of the Vietnam War.
Durham, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel living in western Tennessee, considers himself "a better than average guitar picker, with a better than average voice." Says Durham, "I'm not just another pretty face."
Bull Durham is on two Flying Fish Records albums, Songs of S.E.A. (SEA is the military lingo for Southeast Asia) and In Country.
www.historynet.com /magazines/vietnam/3038056.html   (779 words)

  
 Bull Durham Movie Review at Hollywood Video
Kevin Costner — who plays the star of the Bulls team in a love triangle set in the wacky world of minor-league baseball —; said he'd only do a baseball film if it was about something more.
And this one is all about baseball-as-religion, with Durham, North Carolina groupie Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) religiously choosing one Bulls player every season to lavish her charms upon.
When Annie is under the covers screaming in ecstasy and shouting the name of the talented catcher, a miffed Nuke pokes his head out from under the covers and chides her for calling out the name of his battery mate.
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 eBay - DVD: Bull Durham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Durham Bulls are in a slump and have spent a hefty sum of money acquiring an untested young pitcher in the hopes of reversing their standings.
Crash Davis, a 12-year veteran ballplayer who has spent most of his time bumming around as a minor league catcher, is assigned to mature the rookie pitching phenom named "Nuke." But a beautiful and enigmatic team groupie comes between the tutor and his student, enlightening both with her game of life, love and verse.
Bull Durham is one of the all-time classic baseball films, in many ways because baseball is just a backdrop.
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 Bull Durham review, Bull Durham DVD review
In “Bull Durham,” writer/director Ron Shelton, who spent five years in the Baltimore Orioles farm system, has put together the snappiest, funniest and most poignant love letter to baseball ever written, though its ultimate moral deals with matters of the heart.
Based in the Carolina leagues, veteran catcher Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) is signed by the Durham Bulls to act as mentor for pitching prospect Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), who has “a million dollar arm and a five cent head.” Crash has his work cut out for him.
The Bulls actually start winning games, but that is barely a plot point, which goes to show how different “Bull Durham” is from other baseball movies.
www.bullz-eye.com /mguide/reviews_1988/bull_durham.htm   (417 words)

  
 Yahoo! Domains Web Card
The Bull Durham Casino provides the gambler the more relaxed atmosphere with the friendlist staff in Black Hawk.
Stop by and see what gaming was meant to be in Colorado at the Bull Durham Saloon and Casino, located at 110 Main Street (across for Fitzgeralds).
Bull Durham Casino is owned and operated by Casino's USA Inc.
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 Bull Durham
Bull Durham recounts the travails of North Carolina's Durham Bulls, a bush-league baseball team hoping that recently signed pitcher Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) will lead the club to victory.
Embittered veteran catcher"Crash" Davis (Kevin Costner, at that time a newly minted star) is assigned to work with the talented but undisciplined rookie.
Smart, sassy, and saucy, Bull Durham wowed moviegoers in 1988 and continues to be a guaranteed crowd pleaser.
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 Bull Durham Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Bull Durham was born on Wednesday, June 27, 1877, in New Oxford, Pennsylvania.
Durham was 27 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 15, 1904, with the Brooklyn Superbas.
Did you know that you can compare Bull Durham to other rookies who also had their Major League debut during the 1904 National League season?
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=durhabu01   (296 words)

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