I thought it was his own idiosyncracy but the other press members use it. Does anyone know what this refers to?
shareWhile watching this for the first time recently, I wondered if Robert Duvall was somehow paying tribute to this movie in The Great Santini. Duvall is constantly calling everyone "sports fan" in that movie, doing a similar old time radio thing that made even less sense during the time of the later movie than it did during "Ace in the Hole."
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I don't think so--Robert Duvall's character in The Great Santini was based on Pat Conroy(the author of the novel)'s father. I read in an interview with Pat Conroy that his dad really did call him and his siblings "sports fans". I doubt it had anything to do with Ace in the Hole.
shareI'm a little late, but it reminded me of Newman calling his nephew "fantan" or just "fan" in Hud.
I didn't know what it meant when I first saw it and I don't know now.
To be someone's fan is to admire them, at least some of their attributes. Chuck's usage of it was obviously ironic for the most part, because he knew most of his colleagues and ex-colleagues despised him (Herbie being the exception)
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