Word: baugh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taking notes. "I don't watch other movies to study acting," he says. "I go to documentaries. And I learn from people. There are things you pick up--one mannerism or gesture, one little subtle thing." Before making Lonesome Dove he was visiting the Texas home of Slingin' Sammy Baugh, quarterback for the '40s Washington Redskins. "He had a way of pointing"--Duvall cocks a finger and throws his hand in the air--"and a particular way of talking. I put that into the character." Thus did an old football star become a driven cattle driver...
...Manhattan headquarters of the IRS, visitors were greeted at the door by a well-bred Southerner, district director Charles Baugh, who did everything he could to make them feel at home. Upstairs, IRS employees outnumbered concerned taxpayers, which necessitated still more flesh pressing. All those smiles and handshakes and salutations felt out of character. It was like having Kerri Strug as your pit boss...