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...disturbed guy hitches a ride and raises hell with guns and other toys. The troublemaker is Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech)--call him X, as in sex--and when he hooks up with the rootless Amy (Rose McGowan) and Jordan (James Duval), severed heads and arms are strewn across the arid California landscape. But X is too hip to have a conscience: "Guilt--that's for married, old people...
...Tennessee, with isolated pockets even farther north -- there's a colony, for example, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Most of the West Coast, from Southern California up to Vancouver, British Columbia, would make fine fire-ant habitat as well. And while the moisture-loving insects can't spread westward through arid reaches of West Texas on their own, they don't have to. Fire ants have been known to hitch rides on truckloads of produce, nursery stock and even industrial chemicals. According to Richard Patterson, a U.S. Department of Agriculture entomologist based at the University of Florida, infestations of fire ants...
...allots three stories each under the rubrics East and West. The first group, set in his native India, consists of simple village anecdotes, reminiscent of similar work by the contemporary master R.K. Narayan. The Western stories display a deft but slightly arid Postmodernism, particularly a Tristram Shandy-esque retelling of Hamlet...
Shepard's Simpatico occupies very arid territory...
...macho power games. There was a time (Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love) when that country was an essential stop on any tour of the American theater. No longer. Simpatico, Shepard's first new full-length play in nearly a decade, is a pretty arid stretch of land...