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...architect of this unique cinematic boot camp, this military Method acting class, was Captain Dale Dye, 42, a retired Marine Corps lifer who served as the film's technical adviser. He vowed to "give some of these soft city kids a crash course in jungle fighting." Tall and ruggedly handsome, with an aura of laconic authority, Dye appears onscreen in Platoon as the captain who calls in an air strike on his own defeated position...
Like Oliver Stone, Dye is a decorated Viet Nam veteran. His was among the first units to splash ashore there in 1965. Over the next decade, he saw buddies die at such hot spots as Hue and Foxtrot Ridge, and he was wounded three times by rockets and mortar fire. "We fought a hell of a war," he declares, "and until now, Hollywood didn't give a damn about getting it right...
...resemblance he once bore to a boar. As a boy, Jackson was a bully with a gentle streak. At Auburn, he seemed as apt to persevere with a separated shoulder as to demur with a tender hamstring. "You wouldn't call him a gung- ho practice player," Coach Pat Dye recalls fondly. "I'm sure it was like work to him, but it never looked that way. Baseball thinks Rickey Henderson is fast. They're going to find out what speed is. Speed, size, grace, courage. He had everything you'd ever want in a football player...
...threshold of literary fame while the beautiful and rich Catherine is jealous of her husband's reviews. She is also sexually unsettled. In bed with David, she wants to be a boy. She then persuades her husband to join her in getting matching short haircuts and a platinum-blond dye job. (Hemingway fans may recall that the Catherine of A Farewell to Arms also suggests twin coiffures but without the bleach.) Eventually, Catherine comes out of the closet on the arm of the dark, lovely and rich Marita...
...really don't have any posters in the room," says Paddy L. Spence '89, "the walls and ceiling are covered with tie-dye tapestries and Dead banners. I don't know any girls' rooms that look like that...