Dick Cavett as himself: Cavett played a de-aged version of himself in the 1970s, with makeup applied to make him appear younger. Dann character as an actor without legs, and digitally given him legs as most of his on screen time was without legs, rather than the other way around.

Consequently, Cavett is the only well-known figure in the film to play a cameo role rather than be represented through the use of archival footage like John Lennon or President John F. It makes us feel good to pretend that retarded people are somehow magical and wise, because otherwise we would feel so bad that they were severely mentally crippled. Jennifer Hyland Wang argues in a Cinema Journal article that Jenny's death to an unnamed virus "symbolizes the death of liberal America and the death of the protests that defined a decade" in the 1960s.

Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. They worshipped him for no reason, except that he did some quirky things — just as did those in the audience.

While trying to enroll Forrest in public school, the principal informs his mom that Forrest cannot attend since his IQ falls 5 points below the minimum for attendance. Professor James Burton at Salisbury University argues that conservatives claimed Forrest Gump as their own due less to the content of the film and more to the historical and cultural context of 1994.Hanks interpreted the feather as: "Our destiny is only defined by how we deal with the chance elements to our life and that's kind of the embodiment of the feather as it comes in. I haven`t listened to the commentarys yet, so can`t comment on them (hey - sometimes its hard to find that amount of time in a block! Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly said that the film was "glib, shallow, and monotonous" and "reduces the tumult of the last few decades to a virtual-reality theme park: a baby-boomer version of Disney's America. Winston Groom, who wrote the original novel, describes the film as having taken the "rough edges" off the character whom he had envisioned being played by John Goodman. It may be interesting that some of the audition scenes did not make it into the final script, or it may not be.