Movies
February, 1995
Tommy Lee Jones both chews the scenery and hits a grand-slam homer in Cobb (Warner Bros.). As baseball's Ty Cobb, who was "the greatest ballplayer, also the greatest bastard" in the history of the game, Jones invests his role with almost Shakespearean fury. Robert Wuhl ably plays second banana Al Stump, the sportswriter and biographer whose recollections of his harrowing encounters with Cobb inspired the movie. Unlike writer-director Ron Shelton's Bull Durham and White Men Can't Jump,...
