by mr.negativity » Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:02 pm
The New York Times:
[quote=" BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY"]LOS ANGELES — During the baseball strike of 1995, Thomas Tull, then a 24-year-old laundromat owner, was audacious enough to turn up at a training camp for the Atlanta Braves. They looked at his swing and sent him home.
No matter. Mr. Tull swatted through the entrepreneurial minor leagues, from laundries to tax prep centers to dot-com start-ups, and into Hollywood.
His aggressiveness and aw-shucks charm made him one of the most successful walk-on players in movie history. “The Dark Knight,â€