Word: miners
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Mantle's father, a miner in Oklahoma, taught Mickey how to switch hit practically before Mickey could walk. Mantle's father, after an exhausting day in the mines, would come home and play catch with Mickey. Images of a young Mickey making his own bat, like Roy Hobbs in The Natural, fill one's mind when imagining this most American story of a father playing baseball with...
...Handley's play Idioglossia, it illustrates the familiar movie moral that wounded creatures are powerful ones, with powerful lessons to teach those who would presume to educate them. It's humanism at its most Panglossian. But Michael Apted, who has directed vigorous woodland women before (Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter, Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist), focuses on the weird wonder of Foster. Of course her portrayal is a stunt; of course the viewer is aware of the distance between the actress and her role. Yet she undercuts cliche with a fearless, fierce, beautifully attuned performance...
Catherine (Judith Henry), the eldest daughter of Maheu and Maheude (Miou- Miou), a mining couple who have taken Etienne as a boarder, is courted by a brutish miner named Chaval (Jean-Roger Milo) although she and Etienne are actually in love. Chaval, in a rather ridiculous scene, approaches Catherine, who is attired in white, on the street, and asks where she is going. She responds that she intended to buy a ribbon, but doesn't have sufficient funds. He offers to purchase it for her with the ominous phrase, "Pay me back if you don't sleep with...
...Executioner's Song" and was nominated for another Emmy for his performance in the mini-series "Lonesome Dove." In addition to his movie role in Oliver Stone's "JFK," for which he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor by the Academy, Jones has starred in "The coal Miner's Daughter," "The Package" and the Harvard-Radcliffe favorite, "Love Story...
Theater-trained, he quickly found a niche in films and TV. He could play thugs with dumb cunning, in Jackson County Jail and as Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song, or frog consorts to movie divas (Faye Dunaway in Eyes of Laura Mars, Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter, Kathleen Turner in the recent House of Cards). He approached both avant-garde stage work (Ulysses in Nighttown, Sam Shepard's True West) and high movie schlock (The Betsy, Rolling Thunder) with energy and respect. "It's no mean calling," he says, "to bring fun into the afternoons...