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1	1	H.R. No. 966
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4	4	R E S O L U T I O N
5	5	WHEREAS, Devotees of fine dramatic writing across Texas and
6	6	around the nation and the world are mourning the loss of playwright
7	7	and screenwriter Horton Foote, who died on March 4, 2009, at the age
8	8	of 92; and
9	9	WHEREAS, Albert Horton Foote, Jr., was born in Wharton on
10	10	March 14, 1916, to Albert Horton Foote and the former Hallie Brooks;
11	11	at the age of 16, Mr. Foote moved to Dallas to study acting; he later
12	12	studied for two years at the Pasadena Playhouse in California, then
13	13	moved to New York, where he joined the American Actors Company; and
14	14	WHEREAS, After Mr. Foote performed an improvisation based on
15	15	his boyhood, someone suggested that he write about life in the small
16	16	town where he grew up; that evening, Mr. Foote began a one-act play,
17	17	Wharton Dance, about the Friday night dances of his youth; a few
18	18	years later, his first full-length play, Texas Town, was performed
19	19	in New York to good reviews; for the rest of his life, Mr. Foote
20	20	continued to write plays set in the fictional Texas town of
21	21	Harrison, based on Wharton; and
22	22	WHEREAS, To support himself at the beginning of his career,
23	23	Mr. Foote worked as a night elevator operator and a clerk in a
24	24	bookstore, where he met his future wife, Lillian Vallish; they were
25	25	married in 1945 and remained together until her death in 1992; as a
26	26	young couple, they moved to Washington, D.C., where he helped run
27	27	the King-Smith School of the Creative Arts and was the first to open
28	28	the school's theater to all races; and
29	29	WHEREAS, Returning to New York in 1950, Mr. Foote continued
30	30	to write plays while making his living writing for television; his
31	31	play The Trip to Bountiful was first produced for television, then
32	32	played on Broadway, and was later made into a film; his television
33	33	work included adaptations of stories by William Faulkner; and
34	34	WHEREAS, Mr. Foote began writing for the movies in the 1950s,
35	35	and he won his first Academy Award for the screenplay he adapted
36	36	from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird in 1962; he won his second
37	37	Academy Award for his script for the 1983 film Tender Mercies, which
38	38	he wrote for his friend, actor Robert Duvall; and
39	39	WHEREAS, Returning to stage writing in the late 1960s, Mr.
40	40	Foote began The Orphans' Home, a nine-play cycle based on his
41	41	family's history and spanning the first quarter of the 20th
42	42	century; with his wife as producer, two of the plays from the cycle,
43	43	1918 and On Valentine's Day, were made into films that were shot in
44	44	Waxahachie and starred Mr. Foote's daughter, Hallie; and
45	45	WHEREAS, Mr. Foote created critically acclaimed work until
46	46	the end of his life; in 1994 and 1995, the Signature Theater in New
47	47	York devoted an entire season to his plays, and one of them, The
48	48	Young Man from Atlanta, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995; his 2002
49	49	play, The Carpetbagger's Children, played to sold-out audiences,
50	50	and his recently rewritten play, Dividing the Estate, won glowing
51	51	reviews in the fall of 2008; and
52	52	WHEREAS, Along with his Academy Awards and Pulitzer Prize,
53	53	Mr. Foote received the National Medal of Arts from President Bill
54	54	Clinton; his contributions to Texas letters and film were
55	55	recognized with the Bookend Award from the Texas Book Festival, a
56	56	Texas Medal of Arts, and induction into the Texas Film Hall of Fame;
57	57	and
58	58	WHEREAS, A courtly and good-humored man, Horton Foote wrote
59	59	with great tenderness and insight about the struggles and small
60	60	triumphs of ordinary Texans, but so evocatively that audiences
61	61	around the world saw their own dreams and disappointments reflected
62	62	on the stage or the screen; the young man who departed Wharton in
63	63	1932 spent the rest of his life celebrating the resilience and
64	64	dignity he learned there, and wherever his success may have taken
65	65	him, in his heart and in his work, he never left Texas; now,
66	66	therefore, be it
67	67	RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 81st Texas
68	68	Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Horton Foote and
69	69	extend sincere condolences to the members of his family: to his
70	70	children, Hallie, Daisy, Horton, and Walter Foote; to his two
71	71	grandchildren; and to his other relatives and friends; and, be it
72	72	further
73	73	RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
74	74	prepared for his family and that when the Texas House of
75	75	Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Horton
76	76	Foote.
77	77	Zerwas
78	78	______________________________
79	79	Speaker of the House
80	80	I certify that H.R. No. 966 was unanimously adopted by a
81	81	rising vote of the House on April 27, 2009.
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83	83	Chief Clerk of the House