Wall Street Journal Readers Detail Their Encounters With Robert Duvall

A man of personal honor

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There’s something wonderful about a profile of an actor done when the artist has nothing current to peddle. In today’s print edition of The Wall Street Journal, associate editorial-page features editor Matthew Hennessey delivers a sterling example of this type of profiling.

The article, for which Hennessey traveled to the 86-year-old actor’s 360-acre Byrnley Farm compound in northern Virginia, speaks for itself. Then there are the article comments, sort of the soundtrack to this journalistic movie.

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