Transcript: BILLY BOB THORNTON'S HOLLYWOOD FAIRY TALE

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ABC Good Morning America
Article date:
March 24, 1997
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CHARLES GIBSON, Host

Well, it really does represent something of a sea change in all of this, and it means that there will be a lot of people who are nominated tonight at the Oscars that you may not know very well. Case in point, the Cinderella story of these Oscars, Billy Bob Thornton, unlikely name, unlikely movie, "Sling Blade." Thornton has always been a bit- part actor. He wrote a movie for himself, devised an unforgettable

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