Word: coaxer
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...McKenzie was immediately cast opposite Russell Crowe in Geoffrey Wright's incendiary Romper Stomper. If it was a baptism by fire, it was "a really beautiful one," she recalls. "It was my first film but boy was I agog." She remembers rookie director Wright as "a great coaxer," and took acting notes from her costar, who she calls "an exquisite performer." For Crowe, "it's straight back to the drawing board," says McKenzie. "Who's the character? What does he believe in? Who's his family...
Directors of movies with kid actors have to be parent and disciplinarian, coach and coaxer to their young stars. But there are limits to how much children can be helped. And as movies with kid protagonists become more popular, and our understanding of children's psyches becomes more sophisticated, child actors are asked to carry a lot more of the emotional freight of a story. How then to find and direct kids...
Handkerchiefs Ready. A typical sob-coaxer is entitled Doctor Marigold. No doctor. Marigold is actually an itinerant peddler hawking his household wares from the footboard of his cart. His termagant wife cruelly beats their little daughter. During one of his spiels to the assembled yokelry, the wan and feverish tot dies in his arms. Turning on his wife, Marigold cries "Oh woman, woman, you'll never catch my little Sophy by her hair again, for she has flown away from you!" A paragraph later, Mrs. Marigold commits suicide (the river route). Handkerchiefs must be kept at the ready...
...spent most of his 48 years cooped up in an office as a clerk in the Louisville office of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Jacob Justin Keifer got his start in pigeon breeding at 13, when he invested savings of $5 on two pigeons of which one was a "coaxer"-handsome cock capable of attracting stray females to his cote. For a few years after that Jacob Keifer tried raising and racing homing pigeons and at 19 went to Texas to make his fortune. When he went home to Louisville, he married and settled down to pigeon-rearing in earnest...
...stop when necessary. From Craigie's Bridge to Harvard Bridge the water was very bad. The boat took much water and the men were well drenched. Above Harvard Bridge the water was better. There the second crew was waiting. The 'varsity settled together a little better and gave the "coaxer" a good pull to the next bridge. From this on the 'varsity went alone. The strong head wind and bad water must have made the time slow. Captain Perkins kept the stroke slow and hard the whole distance...