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Being locked up with this movie for 123 minutes is like taking a three-day bus trip sitting next to Hunter S. Thompson. Ty Cobb was by many accounts a mean-tempered, vicious, drunken, wife- beating, racist SOB who was impossible to spend any length of time with, and the movie "Cobb" faithfully represents those qualities, especially the last one.
Jan 8, 1995 · Having dragged the combative 74-year-old Cobb out of brawls in casinos and taken a dangerous ride down snow-covered Route 50 from Lake Tahoe to Carson City during that experience, Stump decided to write the book Cobb's publisher and the conventions prevented 33 years ago.
The film was based on a book written by Al Stump, who ghosted Cobb's autobiography in the early 1960s, then wrote another, far more lurid book about Cobb in 1994: Cobb: The Life and Times of the...
Cobb is a 1994 American biographical sports drama film starring Tommy Lee Jones as baseball player Ty Cobb. The film was written and directed by Ron Shelton and based on a 1994 book by Al Stump. The original music score was composed by Elliot Goldenthal.
Jun 9, 2015 · Cobb enthusiasts in his hometown of Royston, Ga., were so frustrated with the way he was portrayed that they founded the Ty Cobb Museum just a few years later.
Dec 2, 1994 · TIMES FILM CRITIC. In his lifetime and after, as a player and a personality, Ty Cobb both astonished and horrified. A consensus pick, says biographer Al Stump, as “the most feared, castigated...
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Dec 2, 1994 · Cobb: Directed by Ron Shelton. With Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich, Ned Bellamy. A reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty Cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is.
