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...next two Huskie goals came in quick succession, 16:45 and 19:46 into the second period. The first came from second-line center Colleen Coen, who drilled the puck home on a behind-the-net pass from winger Jennifer Santorre...
...Whether the Coen Brothers' whimsical Appalachian "Odyssey" becomes the catalyst for a folk revival the way "The Sting" did for ragtime remains to be seen, but at the very least this fascinating collection gives a welcome airing to some of American music's most seminal components, from prison-gang hollers to children's sing-alongs. Although it's dominated by artists mostly associated with bluegrass, the "O Brother" soundtrack covers an era that slightly predates that style, as befits a movie...
...BLAKE NELSON O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? For a smart guy like Tim Blake Nelson (a classics major from Brown who is also a screenwriter and director), playing dim-witted Delmar in the Coen brothers' sly and shaggy saga of redemption on the run posed certain problems. None was more daunting than authentically conveying Delmar's belief that one of his fellow escapees from a 1930s Mississippi chain gang had been turned into a toad by backwoods sirens...
...Nelson didn't want to patronize Delmar or turn him into a farcical fool. One day actress Frances McDormand (director Joel Coen's wife) observed that Nelson looked just like his one-year-old son. It was the revelation Nelson required. Instead of thinking "in all those pejoratives" such as "dumb" or "stupid," he began perceiving Delmar as "innocent of knowledge, seeing the world without context...
...like schmaltz." Busy and brainy (Laura Linney was a fellow student at Brown and Juilliard), he was editing his soon-to-be released "Othello" adaptation, "OH," while on the "O Brother" location. The down-home authenticity of his performance remains a mystery to producer and cowriter Ethan Coen. "He's a Jewish guy from Oklahoma, so go figure," Coen says bemusedly...