AMORPHOUS APOLOGISTS
So Roger Clemens, following in the wake of ex-teammate Jason Giambi, is also now apologizing without providing details? Let me ask you this: Imagine you know a specific manner in which someone is putting themselves in mortal danger. And you simply say to them, "Watch out." But you don't tell them what to watch out for. And then they touch the third rail or forget that the traffic in London is opposite as they're stepping off the curb or whatever. Do you get credit for trying to save them?
"I GOTTA GO PEE!"
Last night I finished writing late, and you just cannot go to sleep immediately after that, so I watched "The Green Mile", which has some outstanding performances by the way (none better than Sam Rockwell as rapist-murderer "Wild Bill" Wharton). Anyway ...
... I've asked this question before, but it was prior to the NBCSports.com marriage to the MSNBC. And since perhaps I have a few more Johntouragers, maybe someone can help me: Why does Tom Hanks, a two-time Oscar winner, have four urination scenes in his films?
Here they are:
"A League Of Their Own" (1992)
"Forrest Gump" (1994)
"The Green Mile" (1999)
"Cast Away" (2000)
And those are just the ones I remember. Did he pee in any other films. And why? I understand that sometimes it is part of the plot (e.g., The Green Mile), but it seems a little bizarre, no? Anyone able to help me here?
NEW ENGLAND BASEBALL
For those of you beyond New England and the Mid-Atlantic States who may not have heard, the baseball team at Division III Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., finished its regular season 34-0. That's the best "start" to a season in NCAA baseball history. The Bantams host the NESCAC conference tourney this weekend as they look to keep their perfect season intact.
Meanwhile, a little farther north up I-93 (or I-95), you probably read about the angry New York Yankee fan in Nashua, N.H., who plowed her '97 Dodge Intrepid into a group of Red Sox fans who'd been taunting her. One man died. The movie rights have already been optioned for this incident under the working title "Fever Bitch".
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Not sure if you actually see the act, but there is a pee reference in Apollo 13 (not by Hanks, but to Hanks). Something like "Swigert used my piss hose and gave me the clap."
Everyone has a good luck quirk/charm. Mr. Hank's must be this: A little golden sunshine = Oscar gold mine!
Not that I could ever truly rank high points in my life, but scanning my brain and trying to remember scenes in which Tom Hanks pees in movies, easily top 10.
Pretty sure there's a scene in "Toy Story" where Woody ... no, wait that was a dream
There is quite a lot of urination scenes in Forrest Gump....or am I confusing that with the Cinemax takeoff "Sorest Rump"?