Word: tilling
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...observes characters." Screenwriter Horton Foote (Mockingbird, Tender Mercies), who recommended that Duvall play Boo Radley, praises his "eye and ear for specifics of character. He has a feel for the Southern idiom, but he brings variations to it. For Tender Mercies he tape-recorded people, then studied the accent till he got it right...
...Conversation (1974). Gene Hackman has the Linda Tripp role, a surveillance pro who gets hired to uncover an affair. Eerily, he plays the sax. And Linda, this part's for you: when the dirt Hackman digs gets folks in trouble, he develops a severe conscience problem. Stay till the end -- it's a doozy. Watching a tortured Gene tear up a Virgin Mary is chilling...
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Once upon a time, there was a little girl who learned she had been expected to be a little boy. So intent were her parents on a son that they failed to prepare for the possibility of her appearance, and she had to wait till the week after her birth to receive her full name: Diana Frances Spencer. Two older sisters (and the brother who eventually arrived) would have royal godparents, but her father and mother chose commoners to swear their faith for her at the baptismal font...
...must now be completely reconceived.) The weeks from the end of October appear to have been a monstrous series of alcoholic-and-eating binges. "Around Thanksgiving," says Di Novi, "he was really heavy, even heavier than he's been the past couple of years." On Wednesday, he was up till 3 a.m., imbibing Jack Daniels-and-Cokes, finishing off the night with his two brothers at a Christmas party at the Hunt Club, where he was a regular. At one point, he did his Wolfman Jack impersonation and then asked, in a little-boy voice, "Don't you think...