Word: legendizing
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...starring in the film adaptation of the John Grisham bestseller The Client and directing the movie version of Elmer Kelton's novel The Good Old Boys, a turn of the century tale set in West Texas. Jones seems very enthused about having also won the movie role of baseball legend Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Ironically, with so much ahead of him, Jones claims to be "short-sighted" when planning his career...
Above all, this genre is about manliness and different ways of achieving its basic requisites -- honor, stoicism and freedom of movement. Geronimo: An American Legend takes a tragic view of those values. Everyone who tries to live by them ends up dead, imprisoned or disgraced. In that sense, it is very much a '90s movie, a conscious metaphorical backlash against newer, softer definitions of masculinity. Here good soldiers and Apaches are equally the victims of compromising, "civilizing" forces...
...Ugetsu Monogatari" at 7:30 p.m. The legend ofa potter, Genjuro and a farmer Tobei, who, drawnby the lure of wartime profits, risk not their ownlives but the lives and happiness of theirfamilies...
...Mickey from the Rocky movies," while Tim Codrington '95 calls his mentor "the epitome of the Rocky coach." Perhaps it's appropriate that Rawson looks like Rocky's coach. After all, according to club president Steve Brann '95, Tommy trained a Rocky for a year--real-life boxing legend Rocky Marciano...
Ancient Chinese legend says that the emperor Shen Nung was in his garden sipping a cup of hot water almost 5,000 years ago when a leaf from a tea bush accidentally fell into...