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Fourth-year Medical School student Patrick W. Linson's quietly determined voice doesn't betray the obstacles he has faced...
From New Mexico, with Taos Pueblo and Navajo roots, Linson matter-of-factly describes the poverty of his youth and the inferior health care Native Americans often receive. Both influenced his decision to attend medical school. Now that he's almost through, he says he is trying to decide how best to use his training here to serve his community...
...community, despite frequent reproaches that it has been unable to adapt to the modern era. Critics can wield frightening numbers to back the argument--only 52 percent of Native Americans finish high school and 4 percent graduate from four-year colleges, according to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Statistically speaking, Linson's presence is the exception to the rule...
...accepts what producer Art Linson says about writers who sell their books to the movies: "You bought the ticket, and you have to take the ride." Tobias grumbles only a bit. He doesn't think much of Getchell's script, which seems to him "a little banal and sitcomish, with a few cheap thrills thrown in." He objects to a rough sex scene between Robert De Niro, who plays the churlish stepfather Dwight, and Ellen Barkin, who plays the mother Caroline. (The Wolff brothers' mother is Rosemary in real life.) Tobias believes the sex scene breaks the film's point...
...Hollywood. Part of last week's media furor about the play, in fact, was the assertion that Mantegna's role is based on Ned Tanen, head of production at Paramount, which made The Untouchables, while the obsequious producer is said to be a sketch of Untouchables Producer Art Linson, a self-described Silver look-alike. Says the apparently flattered Linson: "Mamet has to get his material somewhere...