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Film and Theater Legend Sam Shepard Dies at 73
The legendary actor, playwright and director was well respected by his peers. Not only did he win a Pulitzer for his play Buried Child, but he received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations as an actor.
Set in the orchards of California Valley in the ’30s, Mac and Jim = are idealists who are appalled by the orchards’ terrible working conditions and set out to organize the fruit pickers. Surrounding the two activists is a cast of eclectic characters with varying loyalties, among them the ruthless orchard owner, who is determined to crack down on any strike action.
In 1942, Homer Macauley is a boy determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger of his city. His older brother, Marcus, along with most of the young boys of the city, has gone to war, leaving the families worried. Homer becomes the only telegraph messenger of the city, delivering the letters that bring messages of love, wishes, pain and death, hoping that one of them announces the return of his brother.
