Boy, Didn't Geena Davis Used to Be Hot?

Jimmy Dugan: Hey, where did you come from?
Dottie Hinson: Well, we got as far as Yellowstone Park... then we turned back.
Jimmy Dugan: Had a little trouble with the bears, did ya?

I've been blathering to anyone who will listen that  Tom Hanks has turned into the historian for the masses - while almost nobody is going to read 800 pages on John Adams, a lot of people will watch a mini-series on him if it's on HBO, and while it doesn't match reading the book, it's certainly better than NOT watching the series if it's well done.

I've also noticed that Hanks doesn't have a habit of inserting some sort of love story for it's own sake into every one of his productions, which lends them more credibility in my eyes.

I've thought before that A League of Their Own appears to be a milepost in his career, where he decided he had enough dough that he could stop doing stupid movies and only do shit he thinks is incredibly worthy. Albeit he has some misfires (too many rom-coms/Da Vinci Code shit), but the sheer miles of footage he's given us both as an actor and producer is astounding in its' quality. And while watching A League of Their Own right now for the 19 thousandth time (I've posted before about THIS SCENE, in which Hanks goes from reading on the shitter/hysterical to Oscar-winning energy in about 4 seconds) I've noted something on it's Wiki page that I had never known before:

    * A major subplot in the film was to have revolved around an attraction between Dottie Hinson and Jimmy Dugan. At one point in the film Jimmy and Dottie share a passionate kiss which Dottie later regrets. This was to be followed by the scene in which Dottie decides to leave the league prompting Ira Lowenstein to offer her a trade to another team (Lowenstein assumes tension between Dottie and Kit as to the reason why Dottie wants to leave), eventually leading to Kit being traded to the Racine Belles. Marshall, however, felt that the subplot distracted from the film and in addition seemed to be out of touch with Dottie's character and the era of the film. He decided to cut all scenes hinting at an attraction between Dottie and Jimmy (all that was ever shown was a mutual respect towards each character's ability to play baseball). Likewise, the scene involving Dottie wanting to leave the league was re-edited as to indicate that it was her tensions with Kit that prompted her wanting to quit.

I wonder if this is a lesson Hanks put away into his brain for years to come?

Also, this has to be the funniest he's ever been in any film.