real people

Rob Holton rholton at aei.ca
Thu Feb 15 04:49:42 CST 1996


Baseball great Ted Williams has a well-placed walk-on role in Russell 
Banks's _Continental Drift_.  Considering he's a retired ball player 
and not a professional character, he gets his lines ("No problem") off 
pretty well. His reality reduces the struggling protagonist to tears. 

Rob Holton



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