Duane Dudek

Although the iconic 82-year-old actor has been walking back his comments that he would retire after The Old Man & the Gun, Robert Redford raised the idea during filming with director and Milwaukee-area native David Lowery. “I felt instantly pressure that had not been there before,” Lowery said. “[His comments added] an air of finality or a sense that this would be his last will and testament.

The title character in “The Legend of Bagger Vance,” a golf caddy played by Will Smith, is either a smiling stereotype or a morally superior metaphor. Whether his deferential mannerisms are a benign period affectation or some negative archetype is in the eye of the beholder. Other racially charged images, however, are less open to interpretation, and modern variations of them persist on television and in film.

As a high school student, Milwaukee native Cristina Costantini won first place at the Badger State Science Fair and came in fourth in her category at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair. “People ask her ‘Why didn’t you continue in science?’” says her mother, Cathy Costantini.