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McCrae and Call? We've heard those names before. The two Texas Rangers--each just 19 as Matilda and the snapper heave into view, and with glory, the death of the buffalo herds and the fencing of the open range still ahead of them--are of course the heroes of McMurtry's magnificent horse opera, Lonesome Dove. A personal note: this reviewer is unreliable on the subject of Lonesome Dove, which he rereads with increasing fondness whenever he encounters a November in his soul...
...reach Santa Fe in chains after an agonizing mountain trek. The novel's plan is not much different, in fact, from that of Lonesome Dove or Streets of Laredo: an incredibly difficult journey that no prudent soul would have undertaken, with a psychopathic Comanche (Blue Duck in Lonesome Dove, Buffalo Hump here) skulking in the shadows to pick off stragglers...
...rough calculation, there are about three decades of imprudence and dusty commotion to get through before they become the leathery, intermittently shrewd men of Lonesome Dove. The prequel hasn't really completed its job. Obviously a postprequel or two is required before the central novel can decently begin. Buffalo Hump still lurks. McCrae seems about to marry, though surely not if the sly heartbreaker in the general store is thinking clearly. And the great-grandlitters of pigs not yet born and rattlers not yet hatched must colonize the town of Lonesome Dove, a backwater that no one, least...
...Shaw, located on Lake Ontario between Toronto and Buffalo, occupies three theaters in Niagara-on-the-Lake, a pretty town that might be described as the confluence of a network of bike paths and vineyards. The festival bills itself, justifiably, as a global one-of-a-kind: the world's only theatrical company dedicated exclusively to George Bernard Shaw and to those plays by other authors written during Shaw's lifetime--plays "about the beginning of the modern world...
...rocker Neil Young as he folds his lanky, cranky frame into the driver's seat of his rust-pocked 1958 Lincoln Continental convertible. The car's been through a lot, and so has Young. The graying, semi-reclusive singer-songwriter was a member of the countrified '60s rock group Buffalo Springfield; one-fourth of the vocal quartet Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; an anti-Nixon protester in the '70s; a sometime Reagan sympathizer in the '80s. Now in the '90s Young is a father figure for a new generation of alternative rockers. He turns the ignition key. The engine roars, tires...