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RECENT CREDITS

The N-Word (TV) Jul. 4, 2004

Bad Boys II (FILM) Jul. 18, 2003

Intimate Portrait: Gladys Knight (TV) Jun. 23, 2003

Hollywood Homicide (FILM) Jun. 13, 2003

On the Record With Bob Costas (TV) May. 2, 2003

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HIGHLIGHTS

2003 Directed the intense cop drama "Dark Blue" from a story by James Ellroy

2003 Shared screenplay credit for "Bad Boys 2"

2003 Wrote and directed the crime thriller "Hollywood Homicide" starring Harrison Ford

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2003 Directed the intense cop drama "Dark Blue" from a story by James Ellroy

2003 Shared screenplay credit for "Bad Boys 2"

2003 Wrote and directed the crime thriller "Hollywood Homicide" starring Harrison Ford

1999 Helmed the boxing-themed "Play It to the Bone"; played one-week Oscar qualifying engagement in L.A.

1996 Co-wrote (with Tony Hendra) "The Great White Hype", an unsatisfying look at boxing and its promotion

1996 Wrote and directed the golf-themed "Tin Cup", which fell short despite the presence of "Bull Durham" star Kevin Costner

1994 Stayed with basketball, providing script for William Friedkin's "Blue Chips"; also served as executive producer

1994 Returned to baseball with "Cobb", writing and directing film based on sportswriter Al Stump's experiences with Ty Cobb during the last year of the legendary player's life

1992 Scored big hit as writer-director of basketball flick "White Men Can't Jump"

1991 Executive produced a short film entitled "Sharkskin"

1989 Wrote and directed "Blaze", based on the relationship of Louisiana governor Earl Long and famed stripper Blaze Starr

1988 Directorial debut, "Bull Durham"; also scripted

1983 First produced script, co-writer on Spottiswoode's "Under Fire"; also served as second unit director

1981 First feature work, as associate producer of "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper", directed by Roger Spottiswoode

1974 Moved to L.A. (date approximate)

Signed as second baseman by the Baltimore Orioles farm system out of college

Started out at Bluefield in the Appalachian League

Advanced to Stockton (California) Clearwater (Florida), Fort Worth (Texas), and finally, a Triple-A team of the International League, the Rochester Red Wings in Rochester, New York

Worked at various jobs including digging ditches and dressing mannequins at Sears to support his family

Invested his savings in attending graduate school to study sculpture at the University of Arizona

Began exhibiting sculpture; subject of one-man show at the Space Gallery in Los Angeles

Began writing fiction and screenplays

First completed script, "A Player To Be Named Later" landed him an agent; later developed into "Bull Durham"