i wasn't on the list, but lucky for me, all those gals wouldn't audition, and ron shelton really felt he needed to see everybody together, and i paid for my flight. i was living in italy at the time, and i paid for my way over and had a good, long plane trip to talk myself out of feeling humiliated that i had to read and pay for my own trip, but the script was so good, and, um--and i just felt i had to give it a shot, you know. so i read the entire movie and then got back on a plane and then landed and got to this remote part of italy. i was living in circeo at time, and got the phone call at the neighbor's house-- because we didn't have a phone-- that i had to turn around and come back, and i think that film really changed my life in a lot of ways, because it was the first time that i had been treated with a really great part and didn't have to die at the end, and it was a real ensemble. so ironically, a situation that i thought was going to be a nightmare, to be in a locker room with all those ballplayers for three months or two months, turned out to be a situation where i was treat