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Tracy Letts

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1997 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

We can get you a second-hand motorcycle that you can learn on.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

And Torn's mad about it, and he says that wasn't the deal.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

And then they reach out to him, and they wanted him to get his shoe and calf measured for the boots that he had to wear.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

And Torn said, that's it, and quit immediately.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

So they're out on the road filming the movie, and suddenly the guy they've been rehearsing with for weeks can't appear.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

James Caan recommends Robert Duvall because they had worked together on Countdown and Shirley Knight had done an episode of Naked City with Robert Duvall.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

So they both had associations with them and they tell Coppola, you should hire Robert Duvall.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

And they changed the history of movies, really.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

I mean, that's the first time Coppola meets Duvall is working on this film.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

I think Frank Burns wouldn't mean anything to us were it not for the TV show.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

I think the TV show kind of solidifies Frank – Larry Linville, who was great as Frank Burns, overtly comic performance on the TV show.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

But I think he's what cements Frank Burns in the –

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

I am too.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

I was surprised that I didn't know anything about it.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

It's like, how does a movie with Jon Voight and Robert Duvall, that's not terrible.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

How does it just have no footprint at all?

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

It's not a terrible movie.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

It's kind of interesting.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Jon Voight's very good in it.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

He is very good.