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Today westerns are back, guns blazing. The immediate impetus is a series of unexpected hits: CBS's high-rated 1989 mini-series Lonesome Dove, based on Larry McMurtry's novel; the popular frontier series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; and a pair of Oscar-winning films, Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. They have been more than enough to set off a modern Hollywood version of the Oklahoma land rush...
...Costner, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and Kurt Russell are among the stars who will don Western duds for upcoming movies. Two films based on the Wyatt Earp legend are in the works; so are movie versions of the popular TV series Bonanza and Maverick. In prime time the western is making a slow but notable return, with shows such as Fox's The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Ken Burns (The Civil War) is overseeing a 10-hour documentary series on the Old West, due in 1996. Lonesome Dove, meanwhile, has spawned one TV sequel, Return to Lonesome Dove (airing...
...KEVIN COSTNER...
...least "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" could boast Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater, even though it had Kevin Costner's Southern Californian Robin Hood. I am willing to grant that Elwes's Robin Hood has a British accent, though...
...remember when Sean Connery popped in at the end of the Kevin Costner movie? In "Men in Tights" someone famous also appears as King Richard. I don't want to give him away, but he looks exactly like Captain Jean-Luc Picard...