Tag: Ordinary People
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In Memoriam – Robert Redford
Early in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman, there’s a blackjack game happening in a bar between a couple of players. The man dealing the cards, a blond-haired man with a mustache, has been winning hands, and one of the players, Macon, accuses the other man…
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R.I.P., Donald Sutherland
The following is an updated and expanded version of a post I wrote nearly 10 years ago for an “O Canada” blogathon. Nearly an hour into The Dirty Dozen, Robert Aldrich’s WWII movie about the title group – American army prisoners, on death row or with long sentences – and how they’re trained for a mission…