From 'Sling Blade' to 'Goliath': Billy Bob Thornton finds his peace
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - The bar half-lit, his beer quarter-full, Billy Bob Thornton smiled like a guy fencing stolen watches. He wore a long, dark coat, hat pulled low, and one sensed he could slip away with no one, not even the two ladies tucked in the corner, being the wiser. He sipped and narrowed his eyes at a passing face.
Thornton can come across as a menacing whisper, a man who would guard your lunch money but steal your wife. You have to watch him, like you have for many years, to see what he might do next, this onetime boy from a shack in the woods who loves Faulkner, wears rings on his thumbs, frets about the world and has figured out that television, with its intricate characters an deep story lines, suits him.
His series "Goliath," for which he won a Golden Globe, starts its second season on Amazon Friday. The existential tale, created by David E. Kelley and Jonathan Shapiro, dives into the righteous, flawed, intense if reticent soul of Billy
