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...long-suffering white mare. The three of us boys would climb aboard the broad acreage of Bill's back and ride her down the oystershell road to the blacktop and then on to Chink's roadhouse, where we would go in by the "Colored" entrance and there, in a barroom twilight amid the stale beer and dead cigarette smells, Charles would with utmost deference approach the owner Chink and place our morning's bets on the numbers. We never bet more than 10 cents, all in pennies, money collected from Aunt Sally and Charles' mother, Leola, and from...
Terry Prescott (Mark Ruffalo) is the kind of guy who drifts unnoticed through the American vastness, doing itinerant day labor, falling into barroom brawls and inappropriate relationships. His sister Sammy (Laura Linney) is ostensibly his opposite. She's a single mom who has stayed in their upstate New York hometown, where she raises her son by a rigid book and works faithfully as the loan officer in a bank branch. You Can Count on Me simply narrates what happens when the goofus comes home to sponge some money from the doofus and incidentally, almost accidentally, stirs an emotional frenzy...
...most heated barroom arguments among sports fans is over the greatest performance by an athlete in a single game or match. Some argue for Michael Jordan's final game in 1998, where in the closing seconds he stole the ball and sunk the basket that gave his team the NBA title. Others would pick the "perfect game" that Don Larsen pitched for the Yankees in the 1956 World Series. Or Secretariat's amazing 31-length victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes. What each of these performances has in common is domination--a superb athlete taking on the best...
...side by side, and there's no question whom you'd want backing you up in a barroom brawl. Fox is a six-five bruiser who oozes physical self-confidence; Labastida at five-ten comes across as something of a wimp - not least because he's perceived as clinging to the skirt of his powerful and intelligent wife, Maria Teresa, who has drawn comparisons with Hillary Clinton. When Fox some weeks ago punned on Labastida's name, dubbing him "La vestida" (meaning "the dressed woman" or "the skirt"), he started a machismo bidding war that made the campaign look like...
...more generic than authentic--come to think of it, a lot like the B-picture West in which the real John Wayne toiled through his early years. It's the kind of place where the subsidiary gunmen have no real motives--other than bad breeding--for their depredations, where barroom brawls blow up for no good reason and where plains, mountains and deserts are mixed without any particular geo-logic. This, of course, frees the director, Tom Dey, to play fast and loose with other kinds of logic. In his West, horses sit down when you need them...