A Field of Dreams heads-up

May 8, 2014

Obsessive as I am, I like to check the stats to see how this blog is doing and, being as niche as it is and considering the work I put into it, I can’t say I’m too disappointed. This ain’t The New York Times or Google, so I know it won’t draw huge numbers. I like to think that those who visit are smart, classy, happy, shiny people.

I have noticed over the past couple of days the highest “attraction” is an entry about Kevin Costner/Jimmy Stewart, actors who played in a few pretty successful flicks, some of which had baseball themes. I’m guessing part of this is a fascination for Field of Dreams, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

So I just wanted to give a heads-up that coming soon to the “Bookshelf Conversation” portion of the blog is an interview with Dwier Brown, who appeared as the iconic dad, John Kinsella, briefly but most effectively at the end of the film, a scene that turns so many macho men into blubbering sentimentalists. Yeah, I’m talking to you.

Dwier has just published If You Build It…: A book about Fathers, Fate and Field of Dreams. I highly recommend it; if I ever do a revised edition of 501, I’m pretty sure I would include it (as well as Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe, which I somehow managed to omit in a classic case of brain cramp.)

 

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Tagged as: baseball movies, Dwier Brown, Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner, Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella

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