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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

And, uh,

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

He's playing a corporate head, right?

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

He's got a facility with language.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

He's got a facility with... He's got money.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

It's, again, it's just... You consider the character he plays in Tomorrow.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

It's such a bizarre artifact.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

It's really weird.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Yeah, looking exactly like this, because one of the weird things about it is that, I mean, Ali's playing himself as a 20-year-old.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Yeah.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

And he's 35, and he's already a little punchy, right?

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Yeah.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

And you couldβ€” In his line delivery.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

It's not like he'sβ€”it's almost like right before the action, he says, I want something like this.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

It's not like he's really in it.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

So screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

who wrote MASH.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Also notable because the song The Greatest Love of All.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

was written for this movie, sung a couple of times on the soundtrack by George Benson, and then it was only brought back by Whitney Houston for The Bodyguard, where it, of course, became a massive hit.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

You think Whitney Houston guy?

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Sure.