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Approach one of these eager-beaver debaters and ask a really hard question. You might want to bring a dictaphone to capture the 15-minute spew, too. Just assure the lad that he won't be punished for going over the time limit, and try to deconstruct his constructive...
...industry that softens virtually any contentious social issue -- aids, the Holocaust, Vietnam -- into a fable with a happy ending, Forrest is the ultimate sentimental figure. He embodies that noble Hollywood precept, the spiritual superiority of the handicapped. Forrest is not the ranter on the subway or the sullen, overgrown lad at the back of the class. He is -- well, just...
Forrest Gump is nobody special, but he meets special people. In his 30-year odyssey through recent American history, this crippled Alabama lad with a 75 IQ bumps into Elvis and John Lennon, J.F.K. and L.B.J., Nixon and Mao. Forrest is an innocent on loan to a cynical world, and in the movie bearing his name he would make little sense if he were played by anyone but Tom Hanks...
...talent of Martins was a well-kept secret in Cambridge the past two season, most because he lad suffered through various injuries those years...
...voice. But children are very adaptable. They're great performers: they perform for their parents all the time, to find out how to get what they want." And so Daniel, from the posh side of town, took on his first role and accent: that of the working-class lad. "To me, it was absolutely unconscious. It was raw survival...