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of the film, Russell returned to school at Wyler's urging and earned a business degree from Boston University. Speaking with the Los Angeles Times in 1996, Russell recalled:

Wyler told me I should go back to college because there wasn't much call for a guy with no hands in the motion picture industry. I figured he was right. [In the handful of roles I've taken since then,] I always play a disabled veteran. And this is what Wyler said--'After a while they're going to run out of ideas'--and he was absolutely right. How many times can you play the same role?

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