Word: ritter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...role as the white-trash murderer in One False Move. In this heralded heist film, shot in Arkansas in 1991, Thornton is never scarier than when he smiles--the picture of boll-weevil evil. He's good at that. "Billy can organize all the madmen inside himself," says John Ritter, the Three's Company refugee who gets a career makeover as a gentle gay man in Sling Blade. "If Horton Foote and David Lynch ran at each other at 100 m.p.h. and collided head on, the result would be someone like Billy Bob." In his spare moments, Thornton got married...
Citizen Ruth and Sling Blade are directorial debuts with regional roots (Omaha, Nebraska, and Benton, Arkansas). And both feature star turns with a twist: Burt Reynolds as an Operation Rescue-style evangelist, John Ritter as a gay, discount-store manager. But these films have more serious novelties to offer. Citizen Ruth is, lo and behold, a political satire, and Sling Blade has the richness of a fine Southern Gothic novel...
...years later, he is released from a mental hospital and befriended by a boy (Lucas Black) who could be a healthier version of the lonely, imperiled child Karl was and still is. Rural Arkansas is home to some very decent people--the boy Frank, his mother and her boss (Ritter), Karl and his various keepers--and one or two moral skunks, notably the loutish boyfriend (Dwight Yoakam) of Frank's mom. Sling Blade is about the difficulty good folks have living with rotten ones. The film keeps you guessing whether it will be a horror movie or a love story...
...think there's a smell that's coming from the basement," said Elisabeth L. Ritter '97, a Winthrop resident. "It was pretty nasty...
...other hand, successful new companies are a welcome source of jobs, and the point of an IPO is usually to help a firm carry out a business expansion. "All you have to do is talk to people in Silicon Valley," says Ritter, who points out that "almost all of the firms that got started there in the past 10 to 15 years" were founded by people from behemoths such as Xerox or Hewlett-Packard...