SQUASH - Pop Culture
The 1980 novel Boast by Miles Donald revolves around the
game of squash.
In David Lean 's Lawrence of
Arabia a staff officer tells Lawrence about the new squash
court at GHQ in Cairo when Lawrence asks what has been
happening at base while he has been in the desert leading the
Arab revolt .
In the TV sitcom "Frasier", squash was a game Frasier and his
brother Niles would play.
In the movie
Wall Street,
Gordon Gekko (Michael
Douglas ) and Bud Fox (Charlie
Sheen ) play a game of squash.
In the television series "Friday Night Lights", Coach Eric Taylor
and "Smash" Williams play a game of squash, which Smash describes
as the "whitest sport ever".
In the novel Digital Fortress by Dan Brown David Becker's hobby is playing
squash.
In the film Shallow Grave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_Grave
the main characters play each other at squash.
In the 2005 novel
Saturday by
Ian McEwan , Henry Perowne plays a regular weekly
squash game.
In the 1981 movie
Outland , Marshal William T. O'Niel (played by
Sean Connery ) plays squash alone and against his
female ally, Doctor Lazarus (Frances
Sternhagen ).
In the
John Irving novel
"A
Widow for One Year " the character Ruth Cole plays
squash and defends herself against an assault on the squash
court.
In 2009, the first and only squash 3D video game, Touch Squash
was launched on the iPhone App Store for iPhone and iPod touch .







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