Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueBleacher Bums takes place in the bleachers of Chicago's Wrigley Field. The characters are a bunch of Chicago Cubs fans, watching a game in progress on a summer afternoon.Bleacher Bums takes place in the bleachers of Chicago's Wrigley Field. The characters are a bunch of Chicago Cubs fans, watching a game in progress on a summer afternoon.Bleacher Bums takes place in the bleachers of Chicago's Wrigley Field. The characters are a bunch of Chicago Cubs fans, watching a game in progress on a summer afternoon.
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Greg: If you're smart, tomorrow you'll bet it all on the Cubs, cause tomorrow. You know why? Because they're mad. And when you're mad you get up and gu, huh. As a matter of fact, they're not only going to win tomorrow, but they're going to take the rest of the series. And then they're going to win three from Pittsburgh, and then they're going to take that series from Philadelphia. And those three Spanish asskickers out there, they're going to keep on hitting .300 ball. And Reuschel is going to be a twenty game winner this year and hey, so is his brother. And Sutter, can you believe this, Sutter is not going to lose another game in relief. His earned run average is going to be point zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, one. Then at the end of the season, they're going to win the pennant. Marv, guess what. The Sox win, too. Hah! Could you see that? Could you see that? They'll call it that, they'll call it the, the, the fifty cent series because that's how much it costs to go on the el between here and Comiskey, you know. And they'll play the series and it will go the full seven games. And they'll be in the seventh game and it'll be all tied up in the twenty-third inning because it'll be a pitcher's duel all the way down, you know what I mean? And you know what's going to happen? They're going to bring in Ernie Banks out of retirement and he's going to hit a home run right into my lap and they win! Oh, that's when you can give me a ride home, Marv!
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"Bleacher Bums" is a video production of a play famous in Chicago but little known elsewhere. It takes place in the bleachers, the cheap seats set at the very back of a baseball stadium, where tickets were about a buck but the view needed binoculars. The characters are a bunch of Chicago Cubs fans, sitting in the bleachers watching a Cubs game on a summer afternoon. Most of them have been gathering here for some time and know each other, even if they might not necessarily like or tolerate each other. Beer flows, hot dogs disappear, and friendly wagers take on increasing importance.... Dennis Franz really stands out, a working class guy who dreams of just having enough money to take his wife out to his ideal fancy restaurant, The House of Sweden. The production was done in Chicago, in a time when PBS stations had the money to actually produce full-scale productions. It is pretty much what you would have seen had you attended a production of "Bleacher Bums" back in the 70s, albeit with close-ups. I doubt a videotape was ever released for sale, so your best chance to see it is if a PBS station or one of the PBS-clone cable channels decides to show it.
- davidemartin
- 8 janv. 2001
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