The Natural
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| Initial release | USA |
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| Directors | Barry Levinson |
| Story by | Bernard Malamud |
| Composers | Randy Newman |
| Screenplay | Roger Towne |
| Phil Dusenberry | |
| In the game of film, some call The Natural the best of the baseball bunch. I pencil it into the lower half of the batting . . . | |
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| ID | 845246 |
About The Natural
On the way to a tryout with the Chicago Cubs, young baseball phenom Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) is shot by the unstable Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey). After 16 years, Hobbs returns to pro baseball as a rookie for the last-place New York Knights. Despite early arguments with his manager, Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley), Hobbs becomes one of the best players in the league, and the Knights start winning. But this upsets the Judge (Robert Prosky), their owner, who wants Hobbs to lose games, not win.
Sir David Attenborough polar ship has monster iceberg encounter
... The planned encounter allowed scientists on board the research vessel a closer look at one of the true wonders of The Natural world...
Bond villains in the frame
... I was speaking about vulnerability in art and rawness in The Natural face...
Delhi pollution: Indian Supreme Court's 40-year quest to clean foul air
... " In the US, they have the Congress, the Federal Environment Protection Agency and bags of money to protect The Natural environment...
Sailing to school and the daily issues of climate change
... " When we re building in the floodplain we are restricting The Natural ability of that river to cope with extreme events and so we do need to think critically about where it is appropriate to build, " she says...
Climate change: Fewer wild swans returning to UK in winter
... " But the global population is also declining fast, with threats from: This year has broken many temperature records, with the unseasonably hot weather making its mark on The Natural world, from jellyfish to birds...
First ever images prove 'lost echidna' not extinct
... That has meant that for the last 62 years the only evidence that Attenborough echidna ever existed has been a specimen kept under high security in the Treasure Room of Naturalis, The Natural history museum of the Netherlands...
Beyoncé, Coldplay, Filkins Drift and different touring methods
... " We walk all day, we have an hour for food, and then we do a gig, it s just back to back - to start with it felt incredibly daunting, but now we have just settled into The Natural rhythm of life, " he said...
Bodies of Lianne, Noiya and Yahel Sharabi were found 'cuddled together'
... " She had a keen interest in The Natural world, stars and space, and loved animals, " she said...
Still time to save Our Wild Isles, say UK conservation charities
By Justin RowlattClimate editor
Three of Britain's biggest conservation charities are joining forces to try to halt the destruction of UK nature.
They say they want to use their collective voice to call on everyone to act now to protect the Natural World .
Between them, The National Trust, WWF and RSPB have 8. 5 million members.
" We've come together because whilst we have spectacular nature here in the UK, it is in crisis, " said Tanya Steele, The Chief executive of WWF, which has 1. 5m members.
The aims to use focusing on UK nature to help catalyse action.
The First episode of Wild Isles was broadcast on BBC1 Last Night and highlighted some of The Stunning wildlife that still exists in the UK.
But Sir David warned viewers " how fragile and fragmented our nature is". He Said the UK is one of The Most nature depleted countries in The World .
" Never has there been a more important time to invest in Our Own wildlife, " the 96-year-old told viewers, as he sat surrounded by puffins on The Island of Skomer off the Welsh coast in The Final scene of The First episode.
The RSPB and WWF are credited as co-producers of the series, but The Bbc says they had no editorial input on the programme.
" We need to use the love which people have for nature and amplify it to make sure everyone plays a part to make a difference, " said Hilary McGrady, The Director general of The National Trust, which has 5. 8m members.
The charities want individuals, businesses, public bodies and our politicians to participate.
" It will take every single one of us to play our part, " said Rebecca Munro, the Executive Director of the RSPB, which has 1. 2m members.
Charities can't do this on their own, she told The Bbc . " It needs to be individuals. It needs to be communities coming together. It needs to be businesses, and it needs to be our leaders. "
The Campaign urges us all to " Go Wild Once a Week". That could mean making space for nature in our local neighbourhood by planting wildflowers in a window box or green space, eating less meat or getting involved in a community project or urging our leaders to take action for nature's recovery.
A YouGov poll commissioned for the new campaign found that 76% of people are worried about the condition of nature in the UK.
But the poll also reveals we have no idea how bad things are. Just 5 % of people rated the UK As One of the worst countries for protecting nature, while 55% said they thought the UK was doing as well as the rest of The World or better.
The Truth is the UK is in the bottom 10% of countries globally for protecting nature, according to The Living Planet Index produced by the Natural History Museum.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
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