tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post3946341677806322609..comments2024-03-28T14:05:25.134-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: The Last Twelve BooksJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-76623994781238433722008-12-04T21:27:00.000-08:002008-12-04T21:27:00.000-08:00Robert Redford's character in The Candidate was va...Robert Redford's character in <I>The Candidate</I> was vaguely modeled after John Tunney (son of Gene Tunney, the boxer), who looked rather like Redford and had been elected to the Senate a year earlier, with perhaps a touch of Jerry Brown (who, like Redford's character, was the son of a former governor).<BR/><BR/>I'm afraid it couldn't be Bumpers vs. Fulbright because that didn't happen until two years after the film was released.<BR/><BR/>The Fulbright biography I read with most interest was Tristram Coffin's, because it had (at least of those I could find at the time) the most on his time at Oxford, studying with Tolkien's friend R.B. McCallum.David Bratmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08090662884600828582noreply@blogger.com