To the accompaniment of the familiarWilliam Tell Overture(and an inter-mixedWedding March), a skinny, uniformed maid - who is excitedly talking on he telephone - screams, throws up her arms and faints when an off-screen shadow approaches and looms over her.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.In the next scene, at the service bar at one end of he elegant main dining room on the ship, stewards place numerous orders for Pike""s Pale.There, he took photos of the secret plans with a mini-camera, and learned that Project Vulcan consisted of a drill that drove a nuclear warhead deep underground into the Earth""s core.