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...while we're on the subject of golf metaphors, let me turn your attention to The Legend of Bagger Vance, the latest directorial effort from Academy Award-winner Robert Redford. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, it's the mystical story of a golfer in search of his swing and his soul, and the caddy who helps light the way. It doesn't take an English concentrator to find the metaphor in that. Of course, the trouble with metaphors is that you can only take them so far. After all, not everybody plays golf (in fact, most people...
...Theron is almost unrecognizable as a troubled young woman from New York City, with dark hair, heavy eyeliner and complicated feelings for Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix. On Nov. 3 she'll add some much needed levity and sex appeal to a Depression-era golf fable, The Legend of Bagger Vance, with Matt Damon and Will Smith, directed by Robert Redford. The following week she'll show up in a smaller role opposite Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr. in the 1950s military drama Men of Honor...
...Beauty can be a hindrance," says Redford, who was charmed by her work in the 1998 remake of Mighty Joe Young and cast her in Bagger Vance in part because her old-fashioned movie-star looks translate so well to period films. "It can make you too much aware of yourself. But she just dives into a role with a kind of abandon and a surprising amount of craft...
...When director John Herzfeld was auditioning actresses for 2 Days, he asked them to sit and read a scene in which Helga was shot. But Theron unexpectedly fell to the floor and crawled across the room as she read her lines; when she died, a star was born. In Bagger Vance, as a steel magnolia rekindling sparks with the lover who once abandoned her (Damon), she bites bravely into the hammiest of lines--"Now I'm supposed to run inta ya ahms and melt like buttah on a hot muffin?"--and chews so deftly that she avoids choking...
...from his typical July 4 weekend fare. Director Redford, no stranger to mystical sports dramas himself (The Natural), decided to give Smith and Damon a chance after deciding that he and Morgan Freeman, the original stars, were too old. The buzz is iffy-the mystical bent of the whole Bagger Vance character has audiences commenting on the film's overall "Touched By An Angel" type of feeling...