Davis Inspiration for "League of Their Own, Passed Away at 88.

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/womens-baseball-star-movie-inspirer-davis-dies-18394547

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I don't know why.

I can tolerate a chick flick within limits.

a supporting role by Hanks.

Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Geena Davis et al., directed by Penny Marshall. Even a stint by the team in finishing school.

But, sometimes one or two scenes, even lines, are worth watching a movie for.

I remember wanting to leave the theater during Beetlejuice but not wanting to hurt my companion, who had chosen the film.


Then we finally got to the dining scene with Dick Cavett. I literally almost slid off my chair, laughing helplessly (and all too loudly, I fear). It was worth the four hours I felt as though I had spent watching that movie to that point. (The whole movie is only 92 minutes uncut).

For me, League of Their Own had a couple of scenes and some acting that made it worth watching through. Not for humor, necessarily, though a couple of moments were "funny enough." But because the good guys ultimately win (meaning the women).

It also indirectlhy showcases that whole era, like Ted Williams enlisting for two wars, knowing full well that, by so doing, he was going to blow himself out of the record he so richly deserved.