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...main work he does as an actor," says Billy Bob Thornton, whose Sling Blade was partly inspired by Boo Radley, and who plays a pivotal cameo in The Apostle. "He observes characters." Screenwriter Horton Foote (Mockingbird, Tender Mercies), who recommended that Duvall play Boo Radley, praises his "eye and ear for specifics of character. He has a feel for the Southern idiom, but he brings variations to it. For Tender Mercies he tape-recorded people, then studied the accent till he got it right...
...Mosley (H) def M. Pafitz, 2-1; 177--B. Horton (I) def Volpe...
Anti-death penalty forces have been reeling since the mug of Willie Horton shone in homes across America almost 10 years ago. But now questions about the morality of capital punishment have resurfaced, hopefully in a form that will destroy one of the last remnants of institutional barbarism in American society...
Above all, Coe doted on writers. "He felt the writer was the center of the universe," said Horton Foote, whose The Trip to Bountiful aired on Philco before Coe produced it on Broadway. "Writers like to hear that." He encouraged writers to speak in their own voice. Paddy Chayefsky took Coe's advice and gave him Marty, starring Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand; the next day Chayefsky heard people mimicking the play's dialogue ("What do you feel like doin' tonight?" "I don't know. What do you feel like doin' tonight?"). The film version won the Oscar for Best...
...still has work to do. Black leaders have not forgotten that it was Gore, as a presidential contender in 1988, who first raised the issue of "weekend passes for convicted criminals" against Michael Dukakis, spawning the infamous Willie Horton ads that helped win the election for George Bush. Fellow candidate Jesse Jackson accused Gore operatives then of employing a subtly racist strategy against him in the South and a blatant one in New York, where Gore's leading backer, Mayor Ed Koch, said Jews would be "crazy" to vote for Jackson...