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Article: HIS FATHER'S SON IN 'THE PROPOSITION' AND OTHER OFFBEAT FILMS, DANNY HUSTON FINDS A WAY TO FOLLOW HIS DAD, JOHN
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2006
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Most sons of Hollywood legends daft enough to pursue showbiz
careers want nothing more than to emerge from the long shadow of
their fathers into the glare of their own klieg lights. In the
process, a good many of them end up on a shrink's couch talking to
the ceiling.
And then there is Danny Huston, who openly idolizes his father,
the director John Huston, whose outsized film talents matched his
appetites for women and booze as well as an acute appreciation of
life's absurdities.
Far from expunging the memory of the man who gave us "The Maltese
Falcon," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," and "The African Queen,"
the younger Huston is the keeper of his flame. He stamps his thoughts
about his ...