Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 27, 1988 ARTS The Michigan Daily Tuesday, September 27, 1988 -4 Harvey makes the big leagues BY MARK SHAIMAN MOST actors starting out in the film business have to learn to take rejection. Once they get established, they had to learn to take direction. Don Harvey had to learn to take batting practice. When Harvey, a Detroit native and a University graduate, landed the role of Swede Risberg, shortstop for the 1919 Chicago White Sox, in the new film Eight Men Out, h e discovered he would need training in more than the Stanislavsky method. But while baseball training added to the hard work normally required in making a film, Harvey admitted he had fun. "We got there (Indianapolis), we worked for two weeks with a base- ball coach, the guy who played the heckler. He is Ken Berry, he's a coach for the White Sox and a Golden Glove winner for three years with the Chicago White Sox. He was our coach, and so we hung around with him for two weeks hit- ting the ball around, throwing, bat- ting practice. Can you imagine leaving New York to go to Indi- anapolis to play baseball everyday from nine in the morning to five, six in the night? It was like a bunch of guys just hanging out." And the practice gave the cast of ballplayers, including John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, and D.B. Sweeney, a chance to meet before filming began. "It got us all together. We had a chance to iron out our egos with each other, get to know each other, and by the time we got to start shooting we were pretty tight." The players had to be pretty tight, too, since they were all - with the exception of Cusack's character - involved in the fixing of the World Series. Harvey, as Swede, was one of the ring-leaders of the scandal. But that didn't bother Har- vey, who said he liked playing a slimy character. And Harvey is not afraid of being typecast, either. "I wouldn't want to play too many more. 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"I'm looking forward to a sympathetic part. That is something I would like to get in the next two movies. In the next film I would like to play the lead." With two films soon to be re- leased, he doesn't feel hurried to do another, so he is returning to his stage roots in a small production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. "This is basically for me just to be back on stage and flex my chops," Harvey says. "While honing my film techniques I lost a bit of my theater. So this is going to be * - 0 " " apparel * jewelry : "* accessories " :325 E. Liberty : 995-4222 : -. 4 good for me." Coincidentally, he is going to play the role of Tom, which John Sayles, the director of Eight Men Out, has also played and won acclaim for. At age 28, Harvey feels that his career is falling into place as well as he could hope. "This is just right. This feels just perfect. I was in no hurry; I went to graduate school. 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