There's a reason Billy Bob Thornton is tackling his third coach role in a year, and it's not, he assures us, the comfy polyester tracksuits. It's his dad. After leading a Texas high school football team in Friday Night Lights last fall and bossing around a scrappy bunch of Little Leaguers in this summer's Bad News Bears remake, Thornton Jr. is donning the whistle once again to play next year's Mr. Woodcock, "the P.E. teacher we all had growing up, but a little darker," the Bad Santa star says. His portrayal of the sometimes sadistic Woodcock, Thornton says, was influenced by...
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