Word: bagger
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...Sundance, Redford lost his footing as a filmmaker. He cast himself in the popular but sappy 1998 romance The Horse Whisperer. "I had a plan never to direct myself," he says. "I didn't exactly enjoy it." He also directed last year's expensive bomb, The Legend of Bagger Vance, starring Matt Damon and Will Smith as a golfer and his mystical caddy. "It was disappointing, but you live with that," says Redford. "I felt the point of the film was missed. Critics just didn't go with the mythological part of it, but I moved on." After three years...
...TIME: What's the best film you've seen in the last year? Koizumi: The Hurricane. Denzel Washington. And The Legend of Bagger Vance. Matt Damon...
...KURT WARNER The retired Iowa grocery bagger made the most of his NFL chance: he quarterbacked the St. Louis Rams to a 13-3 record and a 23-16 Super Bowl win over the Tennessee Titans. Warner threw 41 touchdown passes during the season, only the second...
...started on Driving Miss Daisy, or the fact that the black guy who played the fourth Ghostbuster didn't get to do much of anything. But recently, Hollywood has been working especially hard to establish two onscreen stereotypes. The first is the Magical African-American Friend. Along with Bagger Vance, MAAFs appear in such films as What Dreams May Come (1998), the upcoming Family Man (co-starring Don Cheadle) and last year's prison drama The Green Mile. In that film, Michael Clarke Duncan plays a superstrong, superdumb MAAF on death row who cures one of his jailers (Tom Hanks...
...white hip-hop star Eminem. So instead of getting life histories or love interests, black characters get magical powers. It doesn't even make financial sense. Smith saved the world in Men in Black and Independence Day, and those movies were huge hits; he carries Damon's clubs in Bagger Vance, and that movie, so far, has been a box-office flop. Smith is a bigger star than Damon, and yet it's Damon who wins the tournament and gets the girl, and it's Smith who needs to get a new agent. BHGs, on the other hand, exist...