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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.”
—John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle, 1913 – 1952)

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.” —John Wayne
“Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity — and I don’t mean simple — it’ll be good, and the public will know it.”
—John Wayne

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Hollywood — Play Ball!

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Buster Keaton was a fanatic baseball player. When he had his own production company, he frequently hired staff based on their talent as basebalk players.
Buster Keaton was a fanatic baseball player. When he had his own production company, he frequently hired staff based on their batting and fielding abilities.

Ever since Hollywood invented itself as a universal dream factory, movies about baseball were viewed as the perfect landscape in which to explore themes of loyalty, ambition, competition, and of course, love.

More than any other sports genre, baseball movies have dominated the silver screen.

And of course, Hollywood publicity departments frequently used baseball to promote and sell their stars.

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