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...Lone Star A skeleton, unearthed after a 30-year rest, leads sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) on a deeply disturbing dig into his own past and that of a Texas border town that turns out to be a lot less somnolent than it looks. Sam manages to recover a lost love (shiningly portrayed by Elizabeth Pena) but the countywide network of corruption eventually snags them both. Writer-director John Sayles is a subtle, patient craftsman; he knows that in good fiction, history has to be more than a throwaway line. Sayles also has a gift for showing, without bloodily melodramatizing...
...Cooper was transferred to the Intensive Care Ward the next evening...
...Cooper was stabbed on Nov. 22 after a furious argument between himself and another person whom police described as a middle-aged, stocky white male...
Meanwhile, a small memorial with candles, several bouquets of flowers and two commemorative posters has been constructed at the site where Cooper was attacked...
...those who [knew Cooper]--have you noticed how little media attention this crime has received? Is the life of a homeless person not valuable enough for justice?" it reads...