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...rights to The Apostle. He also earns a nice paycheck on gigs like this year's Deep Impact (sci-fi with Morgan Freeman) and A Civil Action (courtrooms with John Travolta). That leaves something in the bank for his own projects; he and Thornton are planning a Merle Haggard biopic. "The best of it all," he says, "is I'm a late bloomer. I get better as I get older; I learn more and have a lot to draw from. I'm going to try to maybe direct some things and produce some others. But if my film company...
...this unusual note, Oliver Stone entered the room and shuffled up to the stage. Looking haggard and exhausted, Stone stood, slightly slumped, over the podium and apologized to the audience for his lack of energy. The firebrand of many a TV interview lamented the day's six previous publicity-engagements and mumbled, "Live television is torture...it's demeaning." The publicity-hungry Oliver Stone of Natural Born Killers, of endless controversy and extremist rhetoric, was clearly nowhere to be found...
What best symbolizes black progress--and white resistance--in America is the march. Haggard slaves marched north, using moonlight and north-facing moss to get to freedom. Years later, regiments of blacks again marched north, this time in the great migration, drawn by jobs and away from Jim Crow. In the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the most poignant images were of the march: from Selma to Montgomery, then to Washington and the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr. tell of a dream. New laws signaled the next campaign: blacks and whites heading toward an integrated, egalitarian...
Nancy noted Martha's magic for being discriminating but not snobbish. "She hated geraniums, which she called the rats of the garden, and she adored daffodils. She loved Wagner and Merle Haggard, Proust and Trollope and Dick Francis, but she described lunch with Erich Segal as like having "a hot fan blowing in my face." Her interest in the British royals was complex. She loved Princess Di for her instincts but described Charles as "having the survival smarts of a baby seal...
...course, as the years wore on, the hubbub died. And it was at this time that my poor sweet face, while not becoming fully haggard, was definitely looking somewhat...puffy. Even worse, it was showing on film. The dailies can be cruel...