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...mister," asks the fat lady on the in dusty Texas sidewalk, "were you really Mac Sledge?" Mac (Robert Duvall) squints and says, "Yes, I guess I was." A successful country songwriter is what he was, and the husband of a high-octane singer named Dixie (Betty Buckley), till a nasty temper and too much liquor drove him out of Dixie's limelight. Now he is trying to find a modest parcel of dignity for himself, his new wife Rosa Lee (Tess Harper) and her boy Sonny (Allan Hubbard). But it's hard: "I'm missin...
Ever see one of these before, mister? Yes, you. I'm talking to you, ma'am. Ever work one of these Commodores or Timex Sinclairs or Osborne Is or TRS-80 IIIs? How do you like them Apples? Just a joke, son. Good, clean fun. But you look so skeptical, like you're from Missouri, and I want to sell you one of these beauties, 'cause you need it and 'cause you want it, no matter what you say. Deep in your all-American heart (you are American, aren't you, pal?), you crave this little honey, which will count...
There was ample chance to do so throughout the afternoon. In his opening remarks, Vorenberg called the occasion "an opportunity for those of us who knew Justice Frankfurter, Professor Frankfurter, Mister, one-L, two-L, three-L Frankfurter, to celebrate." Vorenberg clerked for Frankfurter...
That role was always on his list of personal favorites, along with Mister Roberts, of course, the thoughtful juror in 12 Angry Men and the troubled cowpoke who fails to stop a lynching in The Ox-Bow Incident. All were projections of a humane, decent and liberal-minded man trying to do the right thing in a world that often thought wrong and behaved worse. But there was another side to him. He said once that although he did not consider himself neurotic, "you become an actor maybe because there are these complexes about you that aren't average...
...played 'poor man's polo,' " says Stallone. "A good pony cost $15,000; ours cost $200. Sometimes they asked us not to play." After his parents' divorce, Stallone "did time" in a number of schools. Taunted by classmates for his looks ("I was a Mister Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place") and even more unusual name, he began lifting weights...