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Steve Dalkowski, a hard-throwing, wild left-hander whose minor league career inspired the creation of Nuke LaLoosh in the movie “Bull Durham," has died. He was 80. He died Sunday at the Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain. His sister, Patricia Cain, said Friday he had several pre-existing conditions that were complicated when he became infected with the new coronavirus. Dalkowski had been in assisted living for 26 years because of alcoholic dementia. Dalkowski never reached the major leagues but was said to have thrown well over 100 mph. Long before velocity was tracked with precision, he spawned legends that...

We are with you. We are outraged with you. We will fight back for you..... .Rest assured, we will not rest until justice is done, especially the strong brothers. (snip) Single mothers sometimes bring their kids to class, setting them up with juice and crayons in the back of Mass Comm. (snip) The most mundane beginnings explain her life. The youngest of three children, she grew up in Durham. Her father drove trucks and worked a second job cleaning cars on an auto lot. Her 1996 graduation photo from Hillside High School shows a girl with shoulder-length braids and a...

Bull Durham stars give to food bank COOPERSTOWN - Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Ron Shelton, the co-stars and director of the film "Bull Durham," have each contributed $1,000 to the Cooperstown Food Bank The checks, which arrived Wednesday, followed an earlier $377 check, sent to the food bank through the efforts of the "Bull Durham" crew. The $377 was contributed by people who attended a 15th anniversary screening of "Bull Durham" last month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. During that screening, Robbins passed a hat to collect money for the food bank. Ellen St. John, food bank director,...

TIM ROBBINS IN PERSON WITH "BOB ROBERTS"!! Actor/director/writer Tim Robbins will be at the Museum [of the Moving Image--http://www.ammi.org] next Monday, May 19, at 7:00 p.m. for a special screening and discussion of his shockingly timely 1992 film BOB ROBERTS, a political satire that makes reference to the Gulf War, President Bush, Saddam Hussein, and weapons of mass destruction. [TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT ARE EXPECTED TO SELL OUT QUICKLY…CALL 718-784-4520 to ORDER. SEE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION]. Robbins is best known for his roles in such films as BULL DURHAM, THE PLAYER, and SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, and for DEAD MAN WALKING,...

The Brooklyn Academy of Music has stepped up to the plate to host the 15th anniversary screening of baseball film "Bull Durham" on Wednesday.... (sorry, I'm not a subscriber to Variety.com, so this is the best I could do!).

As actor and left-wing activist Tim Robbins complains about how unfairly he and Susan Sarandon are being treated these days, you can almost hear the world's smallest violin playing in the background. Until it was abruptly canceled, Robbins and Sarandon were scheduled to appear at a Baseball Hall of Fame salute to their movie Bull Durham. The Hall's president decided to can the whole event, saying the couple's opposition to the war in Iraq undermined the U.S. position and "ultimately could put our troops in even more danger." It's not the first time their anti-Operation Iraqi Freedom statements have...

Re "Cooperstown Muffs One" (editorial, April 12): The politically motivated decision by Dale Petroskey, the president of the Hall of Fame, to cancel the 15th-anniversary celebration of the movie "Bull Durham" because he takes offense at Tim Robbins's and Susan Sarandon's opposition to the war in Iraq mocks the very values that baseball and our country purport to represent. I suppose that Mr. Petroskey would like to bar all of us who oppose the war from Cooperstown as well. As we number in the millions, perhaps this is the only way for him to receive a long overdue lesson in...

<p>From the Dixie Chicks and Martin Sheen to Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, stars who speak out against President Bush and the war in Iraq are seeing repercussions.</p> <p>"There's a piling on, and we're isolating people. That's just wrong," says Kevin Costner, standing up for "courageous" Bull Durham co-stars Sarandon and Robbins.</p>

Not every screwball in the Hall of Fame is a baseball. One of them just happens to be its president. That would be Dale Petroskey, and after this latest mess, there's reason to wonder how much longer he will hold on to that exalted position. Petroskey, a former assistant press secretary in the Reagan administration, wrote a letter Monday to actor Tim Robbins informing him the hall was canceling a 15th anniversary celebration of the movie "Bull Durham" scheduled for April 26-27 at Cooperstown. Had Petroskey deep-sixed Robbins for a barely credible throwing motion while portraying fireballing right-hander Nuke LaLoosh...