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- Paul Newman -- Roles
After this, and an appearance in Ritt's collage of Hemingway stories, Adventures Of A Young Man, Newman stuck with Ritt once more for another of his best-known roles, in Hud. Here Melvyn Douglas played a straight-laced landowner, battling to keep his ranch going in the face of an arid landscape and a bad boy son. This is Paul, drunken, libidinous and arrogant - another of Newman's total bastards, who comes close to raping housekeeper Patricia Neal. To further prove that point about serious recognition, Neal won a Best Actress Oscar, and Douglas Best Supporting Actor. Newman himself was nominated as Best Actor. - Gary Cooper -- Academy Award
Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor of English heritage. His career spanned from the 1920s until the year of his death, and saw him make one hundred films. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited for the many Westerns he made. - Clint Eastwood -- Mystic River
Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood, is another terribly poor American film that has been widely and highly praised. Indignation... is out of place. One hardly expects anything else from the vast majority of critics at present. - Brokeback Mountain (2005) -- Heath Ledger
Brokeback Mountain is much better than either The Shipping News or The Hours, though. Partly that's because the minimalist style and cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto's evocative imagery disguise how little the writing actually conveys in the second half. Partly because Ledger and Gyllenhaal deliver stirring performances as Ennis and Jack, the former painfully stoic and the latter more emotionally exposed. Mostly it's because the powerful, painstakingly crafted first part gives the film a large enough reserve of emotional energy to sustain momentum. Then, the haunting finale restores a sense of beauty and grace. Yes, it's a gay cowboy movie. - Jake Gyllenhaal -- Heath Ledger
With a talent and instinct beyond his years, Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (pronounced Jill-en-hall) is on the fast track toward stardom. Even in the early stages of his career, he has starred opposite several of today's most respected actors such as Heath Ledger, Dustin Hoffman, Laura Dern, Holly Hunter, Chris Cooper, John C. Reilly and Susan Sarandon. He has caught the attention of audiences and critics with a series of powerful performances, and this year will be no exception. - John Ireland -- Texas House
During his time as a state legislator, Ireland backed the bill creating the University of Texas at Austin. He was ... a proponent of low taxes and favored regulating the railroads. In 1882, Governor Oran Roberts declined to run again, and Ireland received the Democratic nomination. His main competition was G. "Wash" Jones of the Greenback party.[3] Ireland defeated Jones by over 48,000 votes.[4] One of his first acts as governor was to have an amendment added to the state constitution establishing an ad valorem tax. He also reformulated the policy for selling public lands. While "this policy at first increased the state's revenues...[it] eventually led to large accumulations of land in the form of cattle ranches."[4] The ranchers soon began running barbed wire around their own land and the public lands that they used, without permission, for grazing. - Percy Sledge -- Blue Night
In 1994 Sledge recorded his first all-new set for some time, the excellent Blue Night on Sky Ranch, which capitalized on the singer's "strong suit", the slow-burning countrified soul ballad, even although the sessions were recorded in Los Angeles. The appearance of musicians such as Steve Cropper and Bobby Womack helped to ensure the success of the album. A decade later Sledge delivered another new album, Shining Through The Rain, on which his remarkable voice again made average material sound great. In March 2005, Sledge was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. - Big Boy
The 25 Big Boys were built in two groups. The first group, called "class 1", were built starting in 1941. They were numbered 4000-4019. The second group, "class 2", were built in 1944. They were numbered 4020-4024. The last revenue freight pulled by a Big Boy was in July of 1959. - Brokeback Mountain -- Heath Ledger
Brokeback Mountain is the heir to this more reflective tradition. Proulx's original story, like much gay fiction, imagines a beautiful, idealised landscape in which taboo love can breathe. On Brokeback Mountain the lovers Ennis and Jack (played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal) are "suspended above ordinary affairs" (though not, it turns out, beyond the gaze of unfriendly binoculars). - Reba Mcentire -- Academy Awards
Reba McEntire is the host for one of country's biggest nights. The event will be aired on CBS. There will be plenty of big names performing in between awards presentations. Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson, Rodney Atkins, Little Big Town, Brad Paisley, George Strait, Sugarland, and Brooks & Dunn are among those scheduled to perform during the three-hour special.