Liz Smith | 10/17/2008 1:27 pm

Liz Smith Confirms Kevin Costner's 'Bull Durham' Sequel Is in the Works (Video)

A sequel to Kevin Costner’s award-winning baseball movie "Bull Durham" is in the pipeline. The 1988 hit starred Costner and lovebirds Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, whose amour began amid filming. Watch me on FOX News dish on whose likely to be casted in the sequel … and why Al Pacino may soon be in a baseball uniform.

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Bull Durham is one of maybe 4 truly great movies about baseball, which is the most perfectly beautiful game ever invented IMO.

By f p on 10/17/2008 3:21 pm

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Loved Bull Durham, never did understand how Susan ended up with Tim in real life, when Kevin looked so great. More my style.

By Sandbee (FB) 54 on 10/17/2008 6:51 pm

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WEll SAndbee she’s definitely my style—Oh my yesiree bob! lol

By f p on 10/17/2008 7:42 pm

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Glad we have different styles Frank, lol.

By Sandbee (FB) 54 on 10/17/2008 8:29 pm

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Amen Sand Amen lol

By f p on 10/17/2008 8:36 pm

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lolol OH my yesireebob Lily—Susan Sarandon —OMG that woman just turns me totally on lololol

By f p on 10/17/2008 10:03 pm

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Kevin still looks great, so can’t wait to see the movie when it is completed.

By Alessan O on 10/17/2008 11:09 pm

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OK sometimes when you see or read something that is near perfect—why mess with the concept and make another—I have doubts about this—real karmic doubts.

By f p on 10/18/2008 2:06 am

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Frank I agree. I have seen Bull Durham several times and always enjoy it. I love well choreographed scene sequences, where each scene is important to the whole and they flow in a rhythm that results in a fun movie experience. Liz, when I read that Al Pacino would be in a baseball uniform, it was hard to picture. Then I watched the video of you and it made me laugh that those were my sentiments exactly. Tommy Lasorda is a lovable, irascible, outspoken, - kind of showers you when he speaks, guy. Has always been a little bit of a chunk, so can’t quite picture the Pacino behind his bat.

By Frannie Em on 10/18/2008 4:51 pm

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As I sit here watching my Red Sox with 3 outs away from ending the season, I vote DON’T DO IT ! Bull Durham is one of my all time favorite movies, along with Field of Dreams , Shawshank Redemption,The Big Chill and Glory. Kevin Costner has seen better days and Al Pacino, who I assume would be a manager, has been terrible in his last few movies. Although it would be nice to see Crash Davis and Annie again ……. this doesn’t sound good, I’m with you. Leave it be ! Damn, the Sox just lost ! Well, good for these spunky Rays, they’ve been at the bottom for 10 years …. as long as it isn’t the Yankees !

By EKA - on 10/19/2008 10:49 pm

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EKA I’m a Sawks fan and they blew it—no hitting worth a darn tonight and I don’t even want to deal with Coco’s stupid lide into 2nd—dumb move—next year and that’s the beauty of the most perfect of all games—gods but i love baseball—my dad taught my bro and me the game and I can’t think of a better gift he gave us :-) How are you Ek? How’s your life going?

By f p on 10/19/2008 11:02 pm

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Yeah, I know, I’m surprised they got this far, with Beckett and Mikey Lowell hurt and Ellsbury and Papi in a slump, you can’t win a world series with just Pedroia and Youk ! As you say, there’s always next year in Baseball. My dad loved baseball, and in ‘67 when I was in college the Red Sox were playing St Louis. He and I got totally caught up in that team, Petrocelli, Yaz, Lonborg. I would skip school to come home and watch the games with him … and we know how that turned out ! He was 57 at the time and died the following summer. Well, fast forward to 2004, I was 57 now and the Sox were playing St Louis again in the series AND THEY WON !!! I was one of those fans that were crying for all the past fans who never got to see it. My husband & I have passed that love on to our sons, one of whom lives in Boston and we were hoping to get to a world series game with him, I just did a bit of commiserating with him. Oh, but he doesn’t know what heartache is… he’s seen 3 wins already ! NOW, I move on to the biggest contest of all … 16 days to the biggest election of our lifetime, and doesn’t this remind you of the 60s ? The feeling that the world is being held in the balance, that, damnit, the good guys may take the country back, that the young people will do it again. And if it doesn’t work out I fear riots in the streets ! Can we go thru that again ? My work is slow now so It will pretty much be all politics 24/7 until this is over. I’ve noticed you hangin’ around here a little more often, how’re ya doin ?

By EKA - on 10/20/2008 12:09 am

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Yes Rico —remember when he was hit in the eye by the ball and nearly lost his vision and that initiated the baseball helmet. And Yaz —yes I do remember many of them. The 2004 ACLS was possibly the greatest of all series in baseball—what an amazing performance the Sawks gave. My dad was scouted by the Portland Ore Beavers of the old Pacific Coast League when he was in his teens but his mother wouldn’t allow it—it destroyed a dream of his and he never really got over it. But he’d always play catch with us and umpire city league softball games for quit a while—in Field of Dreams when the Costner character says hey dad wanna have a catch—god that tears me up every time. My eyes start leaking and I’m taken back to when I was 10 and he’d come out and have a catch with us, my brother and me. Well I’m doing very well— most likely going to be married again in the spring—something i never thought would ever happen to me again :-) So I’m happy. Met here here btw :-) Going to get married to the loveliest woman. EKA, and am very happy

By f p on 10/20/2008 12:48 am

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You met HERE ! Now that’s something wOw should celebrate !!! Seriously, we should know the date so the entire blog can send cyber- greetings. Would I recognize her avatar ? She is a very lucky woman to find a renaissance man like you ;-) Yes, that scene in Field of Dreams got to me too. It wasn’t until I rented it and watched it for the 2nd time and was crying my eyes out that I made the connection that it was because I missed my Dad and our baseball connection. Isn’t that one of the greatest values of art ? Best to you !

By EKA - on 10/20/2008 9:46 am

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Whoa! no way EKA—uh uh nada no!!!!! Or you’ll find me running for the hills. And no I’m the lucky one. Yep Field of Dreams—cry my eyes out too—miss that connection so very much and yes that is one of the abiding facts of art and what it gives and receives from us—-but the memories—ah the memories of sandlot Baseball—glorious times when you’re ten—just yesterday it seems :-) You know we used to go to to watch city league softball a lot when I was young—the whole family and those are marvellous memories too. My uncle Chuck used to play outfield for a team back then—and we’d go on a Satuuday to Seattle to watch the PCL Rainiers play at Sicks Stadium—sat in the bleachers and shagged foul balls—great times those. :-)

By f p on 10/20/2008 10:04 am