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Article: Citizen Billy Bob.(filmmaker Billy Bob Thornton)(Interview)
- Article from:
- Esquire
- Article date:
- April 1, 1997
- Author:
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Like Billy Bob Thornton says, he and the president of the of the United States aren't "what you'd call asshole buddies," but the two, both Arkansas small-town boys made good, have run into each other several times over the years, "just around home." So it wasn't out of line for Billy Bob to ring up his friend Harry Thomason on the car phone to find out if Clinton had seen Sling Blade, the picture Billy Bob wrote, directed, and stars in. (The same picture for which he would earn two Oscar nominations: Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.)
After all, Billy Bob (not William Robert--his daddy was Billy Ray), from Malvern, Arkansas, north of Dalark, east of Caddo ...