The Hamilton creator wrote on Twitter, “Gutted by this news. The passing of White (who was also an in-demand vocal coach and author, and won three Grammys for contributions to The Apostle soundtrack and the bluegrass-gospel compilations Amazing Grace and Amazing Grace 2) prompted an outpouring of remembrances from friends as diverse as the Oak Ridge Boys and Tony-winning Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda. Her first release on her label, 2004’s Green Eyed Soul, was singled out by the London Times as the best soul album of the year. She was starting her own label, Skinny White Girl Records, at the time, and declined. She is later revealed to be Calypso from Pirates of the Caribbean, during the prologue of Dark Brethren. She told the Tennessean in 2001 that the star, who had launched his own record label, PlayTone, after the success of his musical film That Thing You Do!, was interested in signing her to work on a project. Federal Express troubleshooter Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) travels the world to spread the word to the growing number of FedEx employees that we. The Castaway is an NPC found stationed outside the Castaways Camp at every Outpost, offering Tall Tales from A Pirates Life. (For his efforts, the agent got an autograph from White.)Īfter the film, for which Hanks earned an Oscar nomination, White heard from the actor again, but not for an acting role. They nearly missed the shipping deadline, however, until a helpful FedEx agent recognized White and expedited her tape. White didn’t have one, so she recruited her husband, songwriter Chuck Cannon, to videotape her reading lines before transferring the audition to another VHS tape to overnight to Hollywood. According to an item by syndicated country-music columnist Paulette Flowers in 2000, when the film’s producers were considering casting White in the film, they asked her to immediately send an audition tape.
THE CAST AWAY MOVIE
The process by which White eventually secured her Cast Away role also sounds like something from a movie – or a country song. “It’s very similar to creating a voice in a character in a song.” “I see acting and songwriting as very closely related,” she told Digital Journalin 2016. Had it not been a scene in a film, the entire sequence could have made for a compelling country song, something White no doubt understood and found useful in her performance. As she drives away, he spots a pair of angel wings painted on the back of the truck. He then finds himself at a metaphorical and literal crossroads as a woman in a pickup truck (White, playing Bettina) drives up to explain where each of the roads leads. Not finding her at home, he leaves it at her doorstep with a note telling her it had saved his life. After he returns to civilization, he travels to Canadian, Texas, to deliver the unopened package – which has a pair of angel wings depicted on it – to a woman named Bettina Peterson. With the exception of one package, he opens them all to use during his ordeal. The film centers on Hanks’ character, FedEx executive Chuck Noland, who crashes on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific, along with several FedEx packages from the plane (including one very famous volleyball named Wilson). How True Is 'Respect'? Fact-Checking the Aretha Franklin Biopic Includes ideas for writing, recycling, and reclaiming, and an index.Meet the Beatle: A Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 Songs With poems about food wrappers, lost mittens, plastic straws, refugee children, trashy talk, the environment, connection, community, responsibility to the planet, politics, immigration, time, junk mail, trash collectors, garbage trucks, all that we carry and all that we discard, this is a rich, engaging, moving, and sometimes humorous collection for readers ages twelve to adult. “I couldn’t save the world, but I could pick up trash,” she says in her introduction to this stunning volume. National Book Award Finalist, Young People’s Poet Laureate, and devoted trash-picker-upper Naomi Shihab Nye explores these questions and more in this original collection of poetry that features more than eighty new poems. “How much have you thrown away in your lifetime already? Do you ever think about it? Where does this plethora of leavings come from? How long does it take you, even one little you, to fill the can by your desk?” ?Naomi Shihab Nye
“Nye at her engaging, insightful best.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Īcclaimed poet and Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to those less fortunate, in this collection of more than eighty original and never-before-published poems. A deeply moving, sometimes funny, and always provocative poetry collection for all ages.