Ron Shelton
Ron Shelton
Ron Sheltonis an American Oscar-nominated film director and screenwriter. Shelton is known for the many films he has made about sports...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 September 1945
CityWhittier, CA
assignment control dramatic except eye gave joe pitcher role saw veteran
Joe's assignment was to keep an eye on him and be a role model, ... Joe never saw him, except at the ballpark. The idea of a wild, young pitcher who's out of control rooming with a veteran gave me the dramatic possiblity.
might
You don't know how it's impacting these kids. It might be making some of them want to do something with their lives,
answered door follow help joe knew later nobody thinking
I answered the door and he was begging, ... He would kind of follow the Ports around thinking Joe would help him. Nobody knew who it was and Joe later told me who it was.
behind coming curve
We've got a lot of those coming online. We're kind of behind the curve on that.
board feet million project
We project it to go to 60 to 70 million board feet by '07.
abandon best playing reckless
Any day you can get released. It's the best years of your life, and everybody's playing with this reckless abandon and terror.
baltimore behind five
I was about five years behind him in the Baltimore Orioles' organization, ... Everyone told Dalkowski stories.
demon literally possessed
He literally was demon possessed with the bottle, ... In that regard, he's not like 'Nuke' LaLoosh.
black forgotten
I like to see something like this in my neighborhood . . . to see that they haven't forgotten about the black community,
baseball jesus believe
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.
hero epic ordinary
Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.