Word: earls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time is the late 1940s, the place Montgomery. James Earl Jones, portraying civil rights pioneer Vernon Johns, walks into an all-white diner, plops himself onto a stool and orders lunch. When the proprietor scornfully pours a Coke all over the counter, Jones erupts. "There's something inside of me," he growls, grabbing the man by the lapels, "that doesn't like to be pushed around...
October has been the cruelest month.Co-Captains Hernandez and Carter have been let go.The final blow will drop tomorrow when Cashenfires Johnson. All Davey has done is win moregames than anyone else since he was hired. Herefused to kick dirt on umps, like Earl Weaver. Hedidn't abuse his pitchers, like Billy Martin. Henever tried to win games by himself, like WhiteyHerzog. He wasn't a celebrity, like Tommy Lasorda.He just let his players...
WIRED Directed by Larry Peerce; Screenplay by Earl Mac Rauch...
Woodward's best seller, though it traced Belushi's last days with a doggedness that would have done the Evangelists proud, was a turgid read that had little feeling for its subject and found no broad meaning in it. At least adapter Earl Mac Rauch (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai) knows that the only way to pin Belushi and Hollywood is to wax satiric and surrealistic. When the dead Belushi prowls his old haunts in a morgue sheet that looks like a toga out of the Animal House closet, the film almost has style to match its guts. So does...
...James Earl Jones, who co-stars in Field of Dreams, was at first skeptical of Cooping up Costner. "But watching Kevin on the monitor on location," he says, "I had to admit: it was Gary Cooper. For one thing, Gary Cooper was always looking to spit. He and Kevin have the same pucker in the mouth." For his part, Costner wouldn't mind going back in time to get back in the saddle. "I'd have loved to spend five or six years in the studio system," he says, "doing all those cowboy pictures. I was born 30 years...