Article: 'Lone Star' star not related to Gary Cooper, but their styles are similar.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

NEW YORK _ The first time Chris Cooper heard John Sayles discuss ``Lone Star'' was over dinner in Sayles' upstate New York house. Cooper and his wife, Marianne Leone, had become close friends with the filmmaker and his longtime producer, Maggie Renzi, in 1985, when Sayles cast the then-unknown as a union leader in his coal-strike drama, ``Matewan.''

Sayles was in his study. Cooper, Leone and Renzi were in the kitchen preparing the meal. Then they sat down to eat. And Sayles started talking. And talking.

``He was telling us about this idea he had for his next movie, and it was so intricate that after about 30 or 40 minutes Marianne and I were looking at each ...

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