Word: sams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) is the epitome of the easy-going, yet inquisitive town peacemaker--even his name seems responsible. Unfortunately, it's also the name of his legendary father in whose, enormous shadow he and the rest of the town, it seems, stands. The townspeople are happy to revere Deeds Sr. and Sam's "saint" of a mother. But the new Sheriff Deeds is determined to dig up dirt about his father, spurred on by the discovery of bones and badge belonging to the relentlessly reptilian Sheriff Charley Wade (Kris Kristofferson) whom old Sheriff Deeds may have killed...
...time. The effect has the relaxed feel of a huge storybook page being turned. One moment, we see a confrontation between a young black man and old Sheriff Wade, ages ago, in a bar. Then the camera sweeps upward slowly--and we're staring in the face of Sheriff Sam Deeds, present-tense, listening to the same, now grey-templed man recount the story...
Such a belief in the endurance of place over time gives the movie an easy-going realism, with almost a social historian's slant. Sam's search for the true story of his father neatly parallels the brief conflict in one scene between Hispanics and whites in the community over what version of history to teach. As Sam listens to one account after another of various adventures related to the murder mystery, the movie's theme becomes interaction between story-telling and reality...
...along with tennis and basketball, offers the kind of global sports market that PVI is hoping to tap. What the firm's technology does best is simultaneously display different ads in different far-flung locations. For now it is sticking with static images, but according to PVI vice president Sam McCleery, moving pictures and 3-D animations are next...
That attitude makes me equally skeptical about the possibility that this all has to do with sex. After all, even Freud may have said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." To which Jung may or may not have added, "Sometimes it's an affectation." To which my cousin Sam would have said, "Or a stogie, bozo...