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...based on the Sue Miller short story, is a period piece, set in 1957, when, especially in small, middle-American towns--they inform us, with a rather touching air of discovery--lots of people were repressed and also more class-conscious than they should have been. Jacey Holt (Billy Crudup) is unafflicted by the former condition, but the latter has him distinctly under the weather. He lives poor with his much nicer younger brother Doug (Joaquin Phoenix) and his widowed mother (Kathy Baker) and fixates on the wealthy Abbotts. He's convinced that Lloyd (Will Patton), the paterfamilias, got rich...
...decade later, the two boys most damaged by the torture--they've become cold professional killers, played by Billy Crudup and Ron Eldard--encounter Nokes in a bar, blow him away and blow us into yet another fictive mode, the improbable legal thriller. Here in Grisham country we discover that the other two protagonists have gone straight: Michael (Brad Pitt) is an assistant D.A. assigned to prosecute the case, while Carcaterra, nicknamed Shakes (Jason Patric), is an aspiring newspaperman. Michael intends not only to lose the case against his old pals but also to use it to wreak vengeance...
...million, had the edge initially, shooting crowd scenes last year. But script rewrites slowed the pace. Warner, with $25 million budgeted, has surged ahead, reserving the college track where Prefontaine ran. Filming could begin in June. Both sides had casting setbacks. Warner wanted Tom Cruise but got BILLY CRUDUP, left. Disney had eyes for Brad Pitt but got JARED LETO, right...
...survived the passage to Broadway intact, although the acting was generally superior in the original production. While perfectly sufficient, the present Thomasina (Jennifer Dundas) doesn't bring to this brutally taxing role of doomed prodigy quite the dancing-flame intensity that Emma Fielding did. And the new Septimus (Billy Crudup) has the aplomb but not the haunted intellectual uneasiness Rufus Sewell conveyed. A pleasing surprise, however, is Robert Sean Leonard, playing Valentine Coverly, a modern-day biologist and computer scientist. As Claudio in Kenneth Branagh's film Much Ado About Nothing, Leonard looked thoroughly out of his element while trying...
...still in high school and the family was still living at Lauderdale Courts, he had a record on the radio. Nothing about icy fingers this time. That's All Right, Mama was a butane-bright and street-nasty version of an old blues number by Arthur ("Big Boy") Crudup; the flip side, Blue Moon of Kentucky, was a wild and beautiful version of a bluegrass waltz popularized by the country star Bill Monroe in 1946. No one had ever heard anything quite like...