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BASEketball
BASEketball is a 1998 American sports comedy film co-written and directed by David Zucker, starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and costarring Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Vaughn, Ernest Borgnine and Dian Bachar. The film is about BASEketball, a hybrid sport combining baseball and basketball, invented by Zucker in the 1980s. Parker and Stone play childhood friends who envision it as something they could win against athletes. It becomes an overnight sensation and a target of corporate sponsorship. Originally intended as a television series, which had a pilot episode filmed which starred Chris Rock, Zucker transitioned to film and wanted Chris Farley for the lead role but instead cast Parker and Stone after the success of South Park. This is the only work involving the stars that was neither written, directed nor produced by them. It was a box office disappointment with mixed critical reviews, though Zucker's direction and the supporting cast (particularly Borgnine and Vaughn) was praised.
Article summary
BASEketball is a 1998 American sports comedy film co-written and directed by David Zucker, starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and costarring Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Vaughn, Ernest Borgnine and Dian Bachar. The film is about BASEketball, a hybrid sport combining baseball and basketball, invented by Zucker in the 1980s. Parker and Stone play childhood friends who envision it as something they could win against athletes. It becomes an overnight sensation and a target of corporate sponsorship. Originally intended as a television series, which had a pilot episode filmed which starred Chris Rock, Zucker transitioned to film and wanted Chris Farley for the lead role but instead cast Parker and Stone after the success of South Park. This is the only work involving the stars that was neither written, directed nor produced by them. It was a box office disappointment with mixed critical reviews, though Zucker's direction and the supporting cast (particularly Borgnine and Vaughn) was praised.
Key claims
- release date: 1998-07-31 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- The record states that the release date is "1998-07-31". What evidence would count against this claim?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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