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Article: A GOOD OLD BOY MAKES GOODACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE BILLY BOB THORNTON REMEMBERED HIS MALVERN, ARK., ROOTS WHEN WRITING HIS MOVIE `SLING BLADE.'.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- February 21, 1997
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Byline: TERRY LAWSON Knight-Ridder
A few weeks ago, Billy Bob Thornton, the director, writer and Oscar-nominated star of the acclaimed new drama ``Sling Blade,'' needed career advice of the sort you can't really get from a manager, an agent or even a fellow actor.
Should he follow up his award-winning performance as the mentally retarded ex-convict Karl Childers in ``Sling Blade'' with the much-coveted role of the snaky, James Carville-like campaign manager in the film version of ``Primary Colors''? That, of course, is the best-seller in which a Bill Clinton-like character has Clinton-like misadventures on the campaign trail.
``So I just called ...
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... ... away anything from the tremendous job Billy Bob Thornton does in "Sling Blade." But all the buzz about his Oscar-nominated ... it isn't convincing, neither is the movie. Thornton, who wrote the script and directed the movie ...
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