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...gettin' ready to excuse himself, 'cuz he's got meetings and all with the other coaches to go to. These guys, they're always meetin' about one thing or another. Probably has somethin' to do with that multiflex, you know, those funny formations of Joe's where everyone runs in different directions...
Mcllvanney captures the speech of his Glaswegians with similarly high fidelity. At first glance, the dialect seems designed to try the reader's patience: "If there's no somethin' wrang wi' her the noo, there'll be somethin' wrang wi' her when Ah get ma haunds oan 'er." Gradually, though, the "hoot, mon" appearance of words on the page disappears, replaced by the odd, lilting music of street, sitting room...
...somethin' that he never done...
...much" on the farm just outside Atlanta. Eight years later, at 19, he struck out on his own, working first at a factory job, then in a chicken plant, then jobbing vegetables. But all the time, he says, "I still had that farming in my mind. It was like somethin' was botherin...
...Baio's from Bensonhurst, was chosen for Fat Sam after Director Parker spotted him in his seventh-grade class at P.S. 201. " 'You,' he says, 'I wanna talk to you,' " is the way Cassisi remembers it. "I thought he was the new dean or somethin'." Paul Murphy, from a South London Jamaican family, fit the role of Leroy because he likes to box with friends. Making the movie meant sacrifices, however. Paul missed out on the neighborhood cricket matches and could grab not even a minute to watch the pros...