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Kevin Costner: Bull Durham
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Actually, Kevin was 5-2 when he entered high school. He was the shortest player in basketball and baseball. His feet could barely reach the pedals when he started to drive. During his senior year, he began a growth spurt that continued into college, until he was about 21. At that time, he was considered to be 6 feet. After the Untouchables and No Way Out, he got listed at 6-1 for Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, and JFK.
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In 1988, Costner turned in arguably his best performance to date as Crash Davis, the aging catcher of a minor league baseball team in Bull Durham. His steamy love scenes with Susan Sarandon exponentially increased Costners already formidable reputation as a sex symbol. More importantly, the movie marked the first time a connection was forged in the publics mind between this all-American actor and that most American of pastimes: baseball. The link grew considerably stronger one year later, with the release of Field of Dreams, the sentimental tale of a man who mows under a section of precious Iowa corn to build a baseball field.
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After Silverado, Costner appeared in several highly successful films. In The Untouchables (1987) he played United States Treasury agent Eliot Ness, who fought organized crime in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1920s. No Way Out (1987) featured Costner as a naval officer and spy. In Bull Durham (1988) he won acclaim for his performance as Crash Davis, an aging professional baseball catcher who falls in love with an ardent fan played by Susan Sarandon.
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Several of Costner's films have included a baseball theme. They include Chasing Dreams, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, and For Love of the Game. (In The Upside of Anger, his character is a former baseball professional.) Costner has a love for baseball and has stated he loves to play baseball even more than he loves watching it.
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Kevin was recently diagnosed with bullshititus, a tragically incurable condition that causes sufferers to believe their own hype. Symptoms include being boring on chat shows. Tom Cruise is believed to ... be suffering from this chronic disease.
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Director Lawrence Kasdan liked Costner enough to cast him in the important role of the suicide victim who motivated the plot of The Big Chill (1983). Unfortunately, his flashback scenes were edited out of the movie, leaving all that was visible of the actor -- who had turned down Matthew Broderick's role in WarGames to take the part -- to be his dress suit, along with a fleeting glimpse of his hairline and hands as the undertaker prepared him for burial during the opening credits. Two years later, a guilt-ridden Kasdan chose Costner for a major part as a hell-raising gunfighter in the "retro" Western Silverado (1985), this time putting him in front of the camera for virtually the entire film. He ... gained notice for the Diner-ish buddy road movie Fandango. The actor's big break came two years later as he burst onto the screen in two major films, No Way Out and The Untouchables; his growing popularity was further amplified with a brace of baseball films, released within months of one another. In Bull Durham (1988), the actor was taciturn minor-league ballplayer Crash Davis, and in the following year's Field of Dreams he was Ray Kinsella, a farmer who constructs a baseball diamond in his Iowa cornfield at the repeated urging of a voice that intones "if you build it, he will come."
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