Brooks withTerms of Endearment (1983), Kevin Costner withDances with Wolves (1990),and Sam Mendes withAmerican Beauty (1999).As the camera focused on "John's" face sleeping in the rear of the van, he awoke in his bedroom as he had done at the beginning of the film - had he been dreaming everything?At the window, "John" looked out on a peaceful, sunny street scene.Then my folks got a real break when my little sister, Josie, made her entrance.She grew to love show business just as she loved everybody and everything.We toured the kerosene circuit in a tank show called 'Daniel Boone on the Trail.' Everybody doubled in brass.Dad walloped the bass drum.For some reason they teamed me with a donkey.I was a good Democrat, even in those days.Mother and Josie threw out handbills.Their smiles would have sold tickets o wooden Indians.They kept putting new stars in the flag and he Cohans kept rushing out to meet them.We had jokes to match every cornfield.We sang at every milk station.Young "MASTER GEORGIE" (Henry Blair at age 7) is a child performer, doing "Violin Tricks and Tinkling Tunes" in his family's vaudeville show, and singing the same number and wearing the same outfit as his father did in the earlier number.Hamada was grabbed, tossed down into water, and stomped to death.Most of he rest of Hamada's squad were either killed, severely injured or devoured - conveyed by their greenish, first-person helmet-cam video feeds and flat-lining EKG displays seen in the Control Room.Post-coitus, slutty Tina old Rod (cleverly named): "I knew there was something about you I liked...Jungleman fix Jane...No more fights." But he strangely admitted to having a nightmare too.During the remainder of the night, odd occurrences happened:In Tina's bedroom where Nancy slept by herself, he wall above her bulged out like a stretched piece of elastic or plastic in the shape of a human face and pair of hands pressed against the surface from inside the wall.