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Whitmire said her ideal speaker is country singer Tim McGraw...
...surprise of the film, though, is the unexpected range of singer-turned-actor Tim McGraw, who plays Charlie Billingsley, Don’s father. Well cast as the former high school star and state champion he wishes his son were, McGraw perfectly embodies the strain that the town places on its youth, never relenting in applying that pressure. Though some of the scenes in which he embarrasses his son with his overbearing demeanor—Charlie at one point appears out of thin air as his son fondles his girlfriend on the couch, before taping his hands to a football...
...aren't people that I just send a CD to and they do it. From Justin to Mobb Deep and Fat Joe, I'm tight with these people." There are so many friends on Sweat and Suit that the albums deserve their own Electoral College votes. Christina Aguilera, Tim McGraw, Ron Isley, Stephen Marley, Pharrell and Mase all drop by, and there's even a John Tesh sample on the hysterically over-the-top Heart of a Champion. Like all double releases, Sweat and Suit are a little bloated, but the good stuff, like the giddy Getcha Getcha and soulful...
...McGraw is not totally risk averse--a neutral mention of abortion on his 2002 hit Red Ragtop was a country watershed--but in general he is too cautious and too willing to compromise his individual perspective to be considered a significant artist. It's a shame, given that his biography is rich territory: he was born dirt poor, he discovered as an adolescent that his father was the late big-league pitcher Tug McGraw, and he was rejected by almost every record label for being too ordinary before becoming a star when Curb Records finally took a chance...
While he waits for the right time for his Senate run, McGraw is doing the other thing that people with big personalities do. Director Peter Berg cast him as an alcoholic father and ex-athlete in Friday Night Lights, a high school football drama starring Billy Bob Thornton (due Oct. 15). "I didn't know if he could act," says Berg, "but what we were looking for was somebody who would just seem real to an audience. And Tim does that. You look at him, you believe what he has to say." McGraw thinks he simply fell into a part...