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Article: Simonson aims to score with `Bang the Drum Slowly'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 11, 1994
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Eric Simonson takes exception, then makes distinctions.
He's not a baseball addict, "just a fan" who lives two blocks away
from Chicago's Wrigley Field and cheers the Milwaukee Brewers.
Having read the famous 1956 baseball novel "Bang the Drum Slowly"
only four years ago, he "fell in love with the language" and felt the
Mark Harris book, second installment in a diamond-in-the-dust
quartet, would make a play. He'd seen the 1973 movie version
(costarring Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty), and it "didn't make
much of an impression." The novel had been compromised, "turned into
a disease-of-the-week special"; perhaps even worse, Harris' metaphor
had all but been ground to dust "in gritty ...