Date: 01 October 2007
From: THX138Driver
GySgt Buck Welcher, USMC, and Director Taylor Hackford cover the finer points of Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School and the mega-hit film An Officer and a Gentleman. Hackford is casual, engaging, and forthright in discussing Welcher's talents as a key element in the production of the film, and he reveals that Welcher was not only highly influential but also largely responsible for the film's authenticity. In 1983 Lou Gossett Jr. won an Academy Award in the category of Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as a Marine Corps drill instructor in the film. More recently Gossett received accolades from the Vatican His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, sends you his sincere regards and compliments for your great work as an actor! Your Performance as Sergeant Foley in 'An Officer and a Gentleman' has touched him deeply. His Holiness remembers you and your movie especially because it was his first visit in a private cinema in Rome after his farewell from Munich and Freising as Archbishop . . . . Gr...
    
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