
Sex, Death and Bowling
- R
- Year:
- 2015
- 92 min
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Since its inception in 1951,
the Masters has been a showcase event.
Competition always is keen among
the huge field of participants,
who bowl in qualifying play for one
of 63 positions in the match play final.
The defending champion
is exempt from qualifying.
attracted bowling's elite,
including Master's champions.
My grandfather told me
that Earl Anthony was the greatest
bowler that every lived.
him with my dad and Uncle Sean
when they were kids.
Earl was a left-handed
bowler... a south paw,
my grandfather said... who kept
his hair short and his glasses
on.
He was square... so
square the other bowlers
called him Square Earl.
He won 43 titles in his life.
In 1975, he was the first
bowler to earn over $100,000.
And in '82, he was the
first to make over $1 million
in lifetime earnings.
And in 2000, he was named
Master of the Millennium
by "Bowling Magazine. "
On August 14, 2001, he
fell down a flight of stairs
at a friend's house and died.
After everything he'd done,
he hit his head on the floor
and that was it.
The great Earl Anthony gone forever.
That got me to thinking.
What happens to us when we die?
Are we just gone...
finito, kaput?
Or do we live on forever?
And if we do, where do we go?
Where had the greatest
bowler of all time gone?
Where was Earl Anthony?
Eli, we've been talking for a while now,
and I want to help.
me the reason you're here.
The reason I'm here... well,
my family's Presbyterian,
but we don't go to church.
Because honestly it's just
not a very satisfying religion,
so I'm thinking of becoming Catholic.
And for me the whole idea of
an afterlife is very appealing.
Presbyterians believe
in heaven and hell.
Well, yes, but not purgatory.
I like the idea that if you mess up,
you go somewhere and do
whatever to make up for it.
And then you go to heaven.
I just kind of want to
know what would constitute
truly evil... because
for me... truly evil
is kind of a game changer.
Have you done something
you want to tell me about?
No.
Would you say killing
Have you killed someone?
No.
But what if someone was
about to kill your mother?
And you had to make a
choice... kill him or let
him kill your mother?
There's really no choice, now is there?
You have to kill him.
Now I say that's a
purgatory-heaven situation.
What do you say?
Well, it used to be you
could count on your sports
seasons in this country.
Now you've got fall
baseball, soccer...
which never quits...
and now lacrosse,
squeezing itself in wherever it can.
I mean, are we even in America anymore?
Yo know it's an Indian game.
What, lacrosse?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, let me guess...
we stole it from them.
Sometimes I think you take
that whole my grandmother was
an American Indian
thing a little too far.
McAllister Sports?
Oh, hey, Hal.
Sure.
Hey, Hal.
What?
Well, no.
No, I know he's your son-in-law,
Hal, but does he even bowl?
OK.
OK.
Well, how bad is Jesus?
Yeah, no, I'm fine with it.
I'll see you there.
What... what
happened?
Jesus sawed off the tips of
his middle and his index finger
on a job... on his
bowling hand no less.
He's in a cast for three weeks...
Thanks, Jesus.
Thanks.
Thank you.
I'm sure he didn't mean to.
Aw, I mean, come on.
Even on his best days Jesus
But I thought, you know, maybe
but now we've got Hal's son-in law who
bowled a little in high school.
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