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SQUASH - Pop Culture

Published by: SquashZAG on 4th Feb 2010 | View all blogs by SquashZAG
From Absolute Astronomy

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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