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Civil rights advocates had given up hope that anyone would ever be punished for the murder of N.A.A.C.P. field secretary Medgar Evers, who was gunned down in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. Indicted in the killing was Byron de la Beckwith, a segregationist whose fingerprints were found on the murder weapon...
Stone, who planned the movie for more than a decade, was ready to do battle too. "Tom has the classical facial structure of an athlete, a baseball player," he says. "He's a kid off a Wheaties box. I wanted to yank the kid off that box and mess with...
The film spans two decades, beginning on July 4, 1956. Ron Kovic's tenth birthday is the U.S.'s 180th, and his hometown of Massapequa, N.Y., is parading its patriotism down Main Street. Disabled veterans are wheeled out, including one (played by the real Kovic, co-author of the film...
They shot for 65 exhausting, twelve-hour days (on a slim budget of $17.8 million), and Cruise would not trade a day of it. "At the beginning I thought, 'Oh, man, I just don't want to blow this. Every day I am going to give it everything I have...
If those on the news desk are not actually on the firing line, they sometimes find themselves at least within earshot. "When a deadline looms," says Jean White, a veteran of the desk since 1975, "there is a lot of testiness both in New York and in the bureaus." During...