Word: slingin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...