 Eli Hollander (qv) had a particularly difficult time casting the  role of Empty Fox. He attended powwows in search of the right person  to hire for the role. Two names kept on coming up:  Rolling Thunder (qv) (a star of _Little Big Man (1970)_ (qv)) and  Grandfather Semu Haute (qv). Hollander set about calling  Grandfather, who actually owned an early model mobile phone that he  never answered. When Hollander finally contacted him about the  script, the Native American non