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Richard Linklater: Huntsville had Old Sparky and the top football team in the state, while Houston offered the latest movies and the symphony. I got the best of both places.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-DEC-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Richard Linklater: Huntsville had Old Sparky and the top football team in the state, while Houston offered the latest movies and the symphony. I got the best of both places.(WHERE I'M FROM)

Article Excerpt
GROWING UP, I HAD the best of two worlds. My parents split up when I was seven, so I lived with my mom in Huntsville grades four through eleven, and then I finished my senior year at Bellaire High School, in Houston, where my dad lived. The two places gave me a unique reservoir: As a filmmaker, I can tap into small-town and big-city experiences without having to employ the usual stereotypes. When I think of Huntsville, of course, I think of the prison. That and Sam Houston State University; my mom taught there. The prison weighs on the town a little bit. And yet the townspeople who aren't working there aren't that influenced by what goes on at the prison. It's the state's business, not the city's business. The local economy benefits from it, but mentions of executions aren't any more prominent than anywhere else in...

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