Article: Billy Bob Thornton sharpens his `Sling Blade'.

Byline: Daniel Fienberg

LOS ANGELES _ If you're a star in Hollywood, your life is caught in a perpetual cycle of spin. Billy Bob Thornton, though, isn't the kind of man to serve you scraped up roadkill and call it filet mignon.

On hand for a special screening of the newly released "Sling Blade: Director's Cut" DVD in Beverly Hills last week, Thornton might have been well-served to try arguing that the new cut of the Oscar-winning Southern Gothic drama, enhanced by some 22 minutes, was somehow a definitive version of the film.

"If I thought those scenes were essential to get my point across, I would have left them in," he says bluntly. "At that ...

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