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...eyes open, taking notes. "I don't watch other movies to study acting," he says. "I go to documentaries. And I learn from people. There are things you pick up--one mannerism or gesture, one little subtle thing." Before making Lonesome Dove he was visiting the Texas home of Slingin' Sammy Baugh, quarterback for the '40s Washington Redskins. "He had a way of pointing"--Duvall cocks a finger and throws his hand in the air--"and a particular way of talking. I put that into the character." Thus did an old football star become a driven cattle driver...
...American way of life has been corrupted by bad guys, who bribe politicians and don't get convicted of crimes. Cure, which is responsible only to the President, has been created to get rid of this filth. Let them meet their maker, as they say in the gun-slingin' trade...
...National Football League's Washington Redskins and one of the game's most successful showmen; of a stroke; in Washington. For a mere $150 in 1932, Marshall bought the franchise for the floundering Boston Redskins, soon moved the team to Washington, where he gave the fans Slingin' Sammy Baugh at quarterback and dazzling marching bands at halftime. The football was sometimes very good (divisional titles in 1940, '42, '43, '45)-and the show always was-to the extent that Marshall boasted he never had a losing season at the gate...
...sidearm passer in the mold of Slingin' Sammy Baugh, Tittle throws one of the longest (up to 60 yds.) passes in football. Pressed by enemy linemen, he will sometimes roll out of his protective pocket and throw on the dead run. But he usually gets all the time he needs to fade leisurely back and pick apart the defense. In the huddle, Tittle solicits reports on enemy weaknesses, looking for a charging linebacker who leaves the way open for a short screen pass, a safetyman who plays too shallow and can be caught flatfooted by a suddenly sprung long...
...Tutored by Slingin' Sammy Baugh, past master of passing, and apparently unbothered by eyeglasses as thick as welders' goggles, Hardin-Simmons' Quarterback Ken Ford took a team of Southerners into the Blue-Gray game in Montgomery, completed twelve of 23 tosses and beat the North...