Word: fancher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Directed by Hampton Fancher...
Several times throughout the film, director/screenwriter Hampton Fancher has our gentle killer relate a favorite anecdote in which a spider climbs into his ear only to climb back out. "Nobody home" is the punch line he delivers, flashing his trademark smile. These scenes are so important because the filmmakers want to portray Vann as a "zero," a nothing--a "nobody home" type of guy. He is merely a reflection of whatever others want him to be: a son to an unhappy old couple; a buddy to a high school football star; Mr. Right to an unmarried postal worker. Yet Fancher...
...BETTER COME HOME, by Garrison Keillor, with paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher (Viking; $15.99), presents the sage of Lake Wobegon in bardic mode, with a talking blues for cat owners. Puff disdains the low-rent cat food her master serves and hightails it for the big city. Her master pleads, "Come home, old Puff, come home to us,/ There's a lot of new benefits I'd like to discuss." No dice. "I saw her six months later in a cat magazine./ She was the Number One TV cat-food queen/...I could tell it was Puff even...
...bombardment? Mostly they are dazzled. "We used to only watch television a couple of hours a day," says Dawn Marcellus, 29, a housewife and mother of two. "Now the TV is never off unless we're out of the house." "We kind of jumped on it," says Ada Fancher, 47, whose husband owns a land-excavating service. "People have done everything up here to get good reception. They bought antennas, channel boosters, and you could still get only two channels. Now at least we know about current events...
...November of last year, a chance conversation between Fancher and reporters about the moral leadership role of a newspaper prompted him to authorize one last try. Three veteran reporters -- Pulitzer prizewinner Eric Nalder, 46, and Susan Gilmore and Eric Pryne, both 41 -- were told to reexamine their leads. To break the logjam, editors decided that signed statements from the accusers would serve as a compromise between the identification the paper wanted and the anonymity the accusers sought. A week before the story went to press, Fancher says, "we looked at what we had and said...