Word: walts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what happens to a storyteller; if you give your life to storytelling, stories start happening around you." As an undergraduate at Harvard, he won a Boylston Prize for his rendering of a speech by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Haitian leader of a slave rebellion, and later won the Walt Whitman International Media Competition for selections from The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He often compares himself to a jazz musician, stripping down everything to the soul. "I used to blow a blues harp and beat a tambourine, but now my body is my only instrument," he says. Blue often works barefoot...
...sometimes the interviews just go flat. But it is by far the best work done on the ugly little freak blacklist, and it is hard to imagine anybody attempting to match the ambitious perspective of Hollywood on Trial. It pulls in Herbert Hoover and Zero Mostel. Joseph McCarthy and Walt Disney, and although it doesn't have the footwork some documentaries do, it is an impressive mosaic...
Keeping Emper company will be either Walt Royal or Andy Puopolo, both returning lettermen, at the other halfback slot, while Paul Halas, a quarterback last year, a defensive secondary man now, and Bill Wendel will roam free at safety, although not at the same time...
...Running Disney Walt's Way" [Aug. 16]: I was intrigued to learn there actually is a street called Dopey Drive. I suppose it would be asking too much to have a politician live...
...most effective scenes are about the college draft. Director Paul Galan focuses on University of Virginia Quarterback Scott Gardner. He is seen at the Senior Bowl, an exhibition that Narrator Walt Garrison calls "a flesh market for the N.F.L. [and] a forest of eyes" -the eyes, of course, belonging to pro scouts. Last year was a bad one for quarterbacks, but Gardner did not know how bad until he waited by his scarlet phone on draft day. The first round-worth at least $100,000 a year to any player -passed. By the eighth pick, when a Buffalo...