From The American Conservative—you really should subscribe, you know—my piece (www.amconmag.com/article/2009/sep/01/00050/) on the great Kentucky actor Warren Oates.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Kudos to Kauffman for giving Oates and the film “The Hired Hand” the credit both deserve. Like a lot of good actors of his generation, his face was a landscape and everyman….quite unlike many of the more shallow and one dimensional pretty-boy actors of this day. He was imperfect and ragged…a physical heir of the Dark and Bloody Ground that spawned him.

  2. Yes! I came across that description of his – and my own – politics in Compos’ wonderful book Warren Oates: A Wild Life.
    Makes me love Warren even more.

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