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“Beard, along with fellow ZZ Top members Billy F. Gibbons and Elwood Francis, presently on the Elevation tour since March 5, have engaged fellow Texan and longtime tech member, percussionist and drummer, John Douglas, for the interim.”

King’s speech is from an actual broadcast — his estate rarely gives permission for films to use his words — and later in “Nickel Boys,” teenage Elwood is astonished to see King at a local grocery store, only to realize it’s just a cardboard cutout.

When Pete goes in to hug Elwood, “Nickel Boys” cuts away for a moment, and then we suddenly see Trey Perkins, the young actor who plays Pete at the Nickel Academy — that wounded child still so present in the man.

Notably, however, Elwood’s beating is never shown — instead, Ross marries the sound of whippings to harsh cuts of a series of distorted, grainy images of faces of students from the real-life Dozier School, which provided the inspiration for Nickel Academy.

Missing moment: “We had an extended Elwood childhood,” Ross says.