Show Me the Money!

February 10, 2005 | This article appeared in the February 28, 2005 edition of The Nation.

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Toward the end of the undervalued 1979 movie adaptation of former pro football receiver Peter Gent's undervalued 1973 novel, North Dallas Forty, a beat, bent lineman, played by the late Jo

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Gene Seymour

Gene Seymour is a film critic at Newsday and a contributor to the Oxford Companion to Jazz (Oxford University Press).

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