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...Bowman is not your run-of-the-mill broncobuster. But he is the winner of this year's All-Around Champion Cowboy title at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Site of the only all-inmate rodeo in the nation, Angola is home to what the event's organizers tout as a "gang of crazy convict cowboys." Among them: all-around runner-up Johnny Brooks, right, who owes his title to skillful bull riding and a botched grocery-store robbery; and Terry Hawkins, a former butcher-shop employee who killed his supervisor with a hammer and went...
THOSE NYE COUNTY, NEVADA, "COWBOYS" must have gazed at the moon until they lost their senses. Gene Autry predicted that such things could happen in the famous cowboy ballad Don't Fence Me In. What modern men fail to realize is that those open skies are open because they are owned and operated by the U.S. government. When activist Dick Carver climbed aboard his Caterpillar bulldozer to open a road in a national forest, he wasn't posturing for the independent Western man, he was lobbying for the cheap grazing fees charged by the Bureau of Land Management...
...limits of common decency in presenting their Flesh and Blood series--six films which over the last thirty years have achieved renown, justified or not, for their explorations of sex and violence. Not surprisingly, the series relies heavily on films from the '60s--"Blow-Up" (1966), "Vixen!" (1968), "Midnight Cowboy" (1969) and "I Am Curious (Yellow)" (1969)--but also includes 1973's "Last Tango in Paris" and 1994's "Natural! Born Killers...
...only X-rated movie ever to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" enjoyed considerable success despite its straightforward depiction of prostitution and homosexuality. The use of nudity and profanity, though shocking then, allows a frank portrayal of the seamier sides of city life as encountered by the story's protagonist, country boy Joe Buck (Jon Voight) looking to settle down with a rich city woman. Particularly offensive at the time were two scenes between Voight's character and homosexual johns, including a middle-aged man whom he physically assaults. But the most striking aspect...
...Horse Whisperer, a romantic yarn in which a Montana cowboy with a mystical gift for communicating with horses has a torrid affair with a British-born magazine editor from New York, caused a stir in publishing and Hollywood circles as soon as the manuscript began circulating last fall. Robert Redford and Disney ponied up $3 million for movie rights; Dell Publishing won North American book rights for $3.15 million; and foreign rights topped $2 million. And that was before Evans had even finished writing the book...