Word: winfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry Fonda, as a relatively benign Southern aristocrat, breaks down and calls his son (Richard Thomas) a nigger when the boy marries a black (Fay Hauser). Paul Winfield, as a black college president, puts on a humiliating minstrel act to raise money from a socialite philanthropist (Dina Merrill). Ossie Davis and Brock Pe ters turn up as, respectively, a Pull man porter and a sharecropper, who risk their jobs to fight for economic equality. In his first TV performance, Marlon Brando appears in the final episode as American Nazi Party Leader George Lincoln Rockwell...
...Dick Garrett. 2. Chamberlain to L.A. for Jerry Chambers, Archie Clark and Darrell Imhoff, plus one million dollars. 3. Bill Dinwiddie. 4. 19. 5. Alcindor used to walk up and down the center court line. 6-7. Lee Winfield, Emmette Bryant. 8. Garfield Smith. 9. Shaheed Abdul-Aleman. 10. Zaid Abdul-Aziz. 11. Wali Jones. 12. Abdul-Ramman. 13. Centenary. 14. Pan American. 15. Akron U. 16. St. Francis of Loretto (Pa.). 17. Bradley. 18. Creighton. 19. Kenney Booker. 20. Jeff Mullins, Ricky Barry, Nate Thurmond, Guy Rodgers and Rudy LaRusso. 25. Steve Previs. 26. Greg Samuels (not Otto Petty...
Last week, however, sentimental Texans had a chance to bid on all the gaudy furnishings. "It's part of Texas history," exulted Dallas Housewife Rena Winfield, who came away with two bar stools supported by pairs of shapely legs. A bag of brass tokens, embossed with the motto "Good for all night," went for $30. David Grayson, a rancher from southern Texas, paid $65 for the outhouse, which he planned to re-establish back home "just for nostalgia." One of the most curious objects of all was a chest of drawers with money slots labeled Thelma, Velma, Miss Lilli...
...Winfield and Tyson are paired together for the first time since Sounder, and their character portrayals are much the same as in that film. Winfield seems to have a talent for playing the role of a patient and understanding father--in Sounder, the story of a poverty-stricken sharecropper family, he portrayed this character with a moving simplicity. In Green Eyes he expanded this role in his role as a Vietnam veteran in search of a lost child...
...light of these previous successes, Winfield's appearance in Hero is somewhat disappointing. As Butler, Winfield's behavior oscillates between tenderness and violence, and his relationship with Benji throughout the movie is uneasy...