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  1. Oct 20, 2015 · That’s what Ron Shelton did with his first produced screenplay, Under Fire (1983), which riffs on Casablanca ’s combination of romance and international intrigue but strips it of all sentimentality and gives it a concrete political context (the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution) that intersects seamlessly with the film’s intimate character studies and relationships. The love triangle between ...

  2. Jul 16, 2022 · His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. Scott Simon speaks with Ron Shelton, who wrote and directed "Bull Durham." Shelton's new ...

  3. Apr 26, 2023 · Ron Shelton is the writer and director of Bull Durham, White Men Can’t Jump, Cobb, Tin Cup, and Play It To The Bone.His new book The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham details his background as a minor league baseball player and the unlikely journey of his 1988 sports rom-com Bull Durham from conception to commercial and critical success.

  4. Oct 6, 2023 · Among the few guarantees in life is that on any survey of great sports films, Ron Shelton’s name will appear more than once. The résumé of the minor-league ballplayer turned screenwriter and director boasts what is arguably the definitive baseball movie with Bull Durham (1988), along with loquacious, cockeyed looks at basketball (White Men Can’t […]

  5. Nov 22, 2018 · Indeed, Bull Durham is a film that Shelton was destined to make. He was born Ronald Wayne Shelton on September 15, 1945, in Whittier, California. A shortstop-second baseman, the 6-foot-1, 185-pounder was taken by the Baltimore Orioles in the 39th round of the 1966 major-league June Amateur Draft.

  6. Ron Shelton (September 15, 1945 in Whittier, California) is a U.S. film director and screenwriter, most notable for making movies about sports. Shelton is an alumnus of Santa Barbara High School and of the University of Arizona and Westmont College.

  7. Jul 26, 2022 · Ron Shelton, who drew on his own experiences to write the screenplay, got it made anyway. The story of how it happened is the subject of Shelton’s book “The Church of Baseball: The Making of ...

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