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...collaborated with Cinematographer John Alonzo and Production Designer Robert Luthardt to paint the colorful Louisiana and New Mexico settings in crisp detail. Ritt has the good sense to stretch out the tense race sequences (with slow motion, if necessary) and gallop by the story's mawkish father-son, brother-brother and child-horse confrontations. He even gets away with the overheated scenes that depict the star colt's birth and its mother's untimely death...
McDonough's Saul and Weinstein's Samuel also play off each other very well. When Samuel reprimands Saul, the tension between the two suggests a father-son confrontation. In a particularly gripping scene, Samuel, laughing maniacally, hacks to pieces a king captured in battle who Saul had refused to execute. In general, Weinstein does well with a poorly-written part. Samuel is unbelievably mystical, with his prophecies and his yoga-like formulas for steeling oneself to face death or danger...
Last year Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared in Montgomery to do research on Johnson for his senior thesis at Harvard. The two developed a closeness described by one observer as akin to a father-son relationship. "He's tough and strong, and he's got a great big heart," says Kennedy. An expanded version of Kennedy's thesis is to be published (as was his late Uncle Jack's Harvard senior thesis...
Founded by Chicago Entrepreneur Nate Sherman, Midas long thrived as the number of its franchised dealers increased steadily over the years. But after Nate's son Gordon took over in 1967, a father-son conflict arose. Gordon was a University of Chicago intellectual and partial to Elizabethan English and the raising of orchids and hummingbirds. He favored a relaxed style of management that did not sit well with dad. Several dealers quit, and the internal strife began to show up in leaner profits. After a proxy fight, Sherman Sr. in 1972 sold his controlling interest to IC Industries. When...
...father-son difference of opinion between House Majority Leader Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.) and Lieut. Gov. Thomas O'Neill Jr. has arisen over the endorsement of presidential candidates, although both have said that this will not cause a family conflict...