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Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds and his chief deputy, Charles Cooper, a former clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, made the trip...
...first stop, Jackson began the meeting with a prayer by joining hands with Reynolds and Cooper, whose hands in turn were clasped by Black civil rights workers from Mississippi. Immediately following the prayer, Reynolds and Cooper, apparently believing the preliminaries to be over, tried to release Jackson's grip. Rather than oblige, Jackson clamped down, and began singing the civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome," which, of course, was joined in by Blacks in attendance, complete with body swayings from side to side...
...Cooper and Reynolds turned purple red, but the Justice official, having announced the trip by citing Bobby Kennedy's visit to the same region 20 years earlier, could hardly be seen on camera struggling to free himself form Jackson's embrace...
...Cooper's Natty was in his forties and very low-key; he liked to hang out with Indians and shoot a deer now and then. Not very marketable. The new-style Natty Bumppo (Daniel Day-Lewis) has had so many heroic stereotypes packed into him that he seems nearly schizophrenic. New Natty is young and hot-blooded; he makes speeches about independence from England (at a time when dupes like George Washington were still supporting the Crown), schmoozes with settlers and isn't averse to clasping a woman in his arms and breathing heavy. Day-Lewis alternates between agitation...
...part. But she's saddled with horrible lines. America, she tells Natty, "is more deeply stirring in my blood than any imagining could possibly have been." This, right after she's seen her entire retinue slaughtered by marauding Hurons. "The whole world's on fire," she tells him later. Cooper was a notoriously bad writer of dialogue, but even he couldn't have written stuff this awful. "I will find you!" Natty assures Cora, "No mater how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you!" Really, now. Maybe Uncas was lucky to get written...