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With Sarandon playing Sheehan in that biopic, there is yet more reason to feel sad when you replay your mental DVD of Bull Durham
National Review, April 10, 2006
* With Sarandon playing Sheehan in that biopic, there is yet more reason to feel sad when you replay your mental DVD of Bull Durham. What's next: Sean Penn as the Yale Taliban? Denzel Washington as Moussaoui? If that is far-fetched, it's only a matter of degree, for as conservative film blogger Jason Apuzzo argues, Hollywood has discovered that it no longer needs the heartland.
Low-budget films can make tidy profits playing to blue-state audiences and the foreign anti-American market. Michael Moore led the way, but George Clooney is following. "Hollywood," Apuzzo writes, "simply doesn't need the Red States any more. Hollywood's more interested in how a film plays in Mexico or France these days than in Kansas. . . . That's the global economy for you--Hollywood's now out-sourcing its audience." Apuzzo's solution: red-state producers who play the same game. The Passion of the Christ grossed $610 million on a budget of $30 million. So, who wants to put on a show?
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