After pausing - when he stares at it and considers his pride, Dobbs loses the butt to a Mexican street urchin who beats him to it.the central focus of each endeavor: the pitcher""s mound (or the entire baseball diamond) and the preacher""s pulpit or altareach practice""s ""saints"" or mythic heroes, such as Saint Paul or Jackie Robinson/Babe Ruth/Willie MaysShelton""s other writing (and directing) credits have also included:The Best of Times (1986)(football)White Men Can""t Jump (1992)(basketball, also directed)Blue Chips (1994)(basketball)Cobb (1994)(baseball, also directed)The Great White Hype (1996)(boxing)Tin Cup (1996)(golf, also directed)Play It To the Bone (2000)(boxing, also directed)Bull Durhamwould only receive a single Academy Award Oscar nomination for Shelton""s original screenplay.Picard was ordered by Dougherty to return the hostaged Son""a officers and then leave the area immediately; it was revealed that Data""s ""positronic brain"" was damaged (causing its malfunctioning) when fired upon by a Son""a weapon, and Picard returned to Ba""ku to more fully investigate, where he found strong "neutrino emissions" emanating from a lake -- there, he, Data and villager Anij (Donna Murphy) discovered a suspiciously-cloaked Federation vessel (or holoship) with a holographic projection - a gigantic flying holodeck that recreated the Ba""ku village!; Picard surmised that earlier, when Data discovered the vessel, he was shot and damaged - and that the purpose of the duplicate hologram was to deceive the Ba""ku people; there was a secret conspiracy to move them en masse off the planet and forcibly relocate them on a similar planet without them ever realizing it.Thematically, it provides an insightful diatribe against crafty, aspiring, glib, autonomous female thespians who seek success and ambition at any cost without regard to scruples or feelings.Iranoff, Buljanoff, and KopalskiTo visually illustrate the comrades"" complete corruption as time passes, a close-up of their hatrack first displays their hree commoner hats and then slowly dissolves into two stylish bowler hats and a top hat.