Saturday Night at the Movies: Bull Durham - She May Get Wooly

It's Saturday Night at the Movies, today's feature is the 1988 film "Bull Durham" starring Kevin Coster as the aging veteran (Crash Davis) of the minor leagues, Susan Sarandon (Annie Savoy) as the Baseball Muse, and Tim Robbins (Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh) as the "all talent - no brains" flame thrower  making his way up the minors.  The song that we'll be mentioning today comes initially from Nuke whilst he's picking away at the geetar in the back of the bus, totally oblivious (as he is to many things in life) to the history of the song and the words contained therein.

And.....ACTION!

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And then from the back of the bus, some soft, gentle, but slightly dissonant guitar chords.

THE BACK OF THE BUS -- Nuke sits across the aisle from Crash, who's re-reading Thomas Pynchon.  Nuke has a guitar and is struggling with some chords to "Try a Little Tenderness".
He butchers the chords and the words.

NUKE

(singing softly)

Oh she may get wooly, women do get wooly, because of all the stress...

CRASH

(in disgust) Gimme that.

CRASH STRONGARMS THE GUITAR from Nuke.

CRASH

I hate people who get the words wrong.  It ain't "woolly" it's "weary" 

and it nobody's got stress, they're wearing a dress.

(beat)

Listen.

CRASH WHIPS THROUGH THE FIRST FEW BARS of the song.

CRASH

(sings softly)

Oh she may be weary, Young girls do get weary, Wearing the same old dress...

HE SHOVES THE GUITAR back at Nuke.

NUKE

How come you don't like me?

CRASH

'Cause you don't respect yourself, which is your problem, 

but you don't respect the game--and that's my problem.

(beat)

You got a gift.

NUKE

What do I got?

CRASH

A gift.  When you were a baby the gods reached down and turned your right arm into a thunderbolt.

Nuke looks at his right arm, rubs his shoulder curiously.

CRASH

You got a Hall of Fame arm but you're pissing it away.

NUKE

I ain't pissing nothing away.  I got a Porsche already.  A 944 with A.C. and a quadraphonic Blaupunkt.

CRASH

You don't need a quadraphonic Blaupunkt--you need a curve ball.

(beat)

In the Show, everybody can hit the fastball.

NUKE

You been in the Majors?

Today's BSOD is Otis Reddings' "Try a little Tenderness"

Artist: Otis Redding

Released: 1966