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Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Costner starred in Fandango, American Flyers, Silverado and many other films. He rose to prominence with his starring roles in The Untouchables and No Way Out (1987). He then starred in Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), for which he won two Academy Awards, JFK (1991), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), A Perfect World (1993), and Wyatt Earp (1994). In 1995, Costner starred in and co-produced Waterworld. His second directorial feature, The Postman, was released in 1997. He later starred in Message in a Bottle (1999), For Love of the Game (1999), Thirteen Days (2000), 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001), Dragonfly (2002), Rumor Has It (2005), The Guardian (2006), Mr. Brooks (2007), 3 Days to Kill (2014), McFarland, USA (2015), Draft Day (2014), and Criminal (2016). He has also played supporting parts in such films as The Upside of Anger (2005), Man of Steel (2013), Hidden Figures (2016), Molly's Game (2017), and Let Him Go (2020). On television, Costner portrayed Devil Anse Hatfield in the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Since 2018, he has starred as John Dutton on the drama series Yellowstone for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
Kevin Costner
Coach Daniel Cliquot
for Coach Daniel Cliquot in Until the Final Horn
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Jerry Fairmont got fame with Detroit, chased championships, learned what winning costs. In Montreal, Rangers, and Florida felt cruelty of playoff heartbreak. Over 3 decades, he became one of the defining players of his era, champion, captain, warrior. But time caught him the way it do to us all. Injuries slowed him. His production dipped. The league got younger and faster. When Penguins signed him 10 years ago he won them titles but extension now critics call name selling tickets. This season his numbers are low. His knee isn’t good. TV analysts ask why he hasn’t retired. “He isnt the same. Legends don’t know when to leave.” Fans are loyal and in locker room, best friend, teammate for years. “You’re still the guy I want out there.” Team limp to the playoffs. Once it begins, he transforms, plays smarter, more deliberate, wins faceoffs, blocks shots, scores. Penguins reaches Cup Final and series goes to Game 7. Overtime. Exhausted Fairmont steps onto the ice. For second, everything slows. 20 years compressed into one movement. Fires. Red light. Fairmont scores the winning goal. Arena detonates. He got the cup first. “I gave everything I had to this game, And it gave me more than I ever deserved.” He looks at teammates, At crowd. “This was my last shift.” He raises the Stanley Cup one final time. Later he returns alone to arena. He kneels at center and presses his hand against it. “Thank you.” Folds his jersey on the bench and walks down the tunnel as the lights dim one by one.
