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...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...
...last letter I received from my husband, 1st Lieut. Dean B. Allen, who served in the Army infantry, was one of those you featured. Unfortunately, the caption with his photo gave the wrong hometown for Dean. It was I who was from Voorheesville, N.Y.; Dean grew up in Delmar, N.Y. I'm sure the people in Delmar would appreciate having it identified as the hometown of one of their own who paid the ultimate price in the service of his country. JOYCE A. HALLENBECK Columbia...
Dean of Freshman Delmar Leighton saw them as necessary sacrifices to the exigencies of the day, but hoped future students would receive more individual treatment during their first year...
...Dean of Freshman Delmar Leighton saw them as necessary sacrifices to the exigencies of the day, but hoped future students would receive more individual treatment during their first year...