Word: cowboyism
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DIED. MICHAEL EVANS, 61, photographer whose folksy portrait of Ronald Reagan, beaming beneath a worn cowboy hat during his bid for the 1976 G.O.P. presidential nomination, made the covers of TIME, PEOPLE and Newsweek after the Gipper's death last year and whose work for TIME covering Reagan's triumphant 1980 campaign inspired the President to hire him as White House photographer; of cancer; in Atlanta...
...bucks to watch country singers pretend to play the guitar while dangling from trapezes. If this is the only demand major labels are feeling, what’s to prevent them from dropping everyone but Toby Keith and buying him a longer trapeze and a bigger cowboy hat? Let’s not play elitists once again, but maybe we owe it to the Earth to continue to support bands we care about so that labels continue to sporadically offer them a chance at the big bucks. Abe: Okay, I’ll give you that. It?...
CHALLENGES: The film had the opposite problem of most adaptations. It had to expand an 11-page short story to feature length. The screenwriters filled out the relationships of the cowboy lovers with their wives and families. The rest author Annie Proulx made easy; much of her dialogue is included verbatim in the script...
...plays a tightly wound sheepherder named Ennis Del Mar, who if this were a more traditional romance would be the female. He is the one who's pursued, who withdraws, who has to be won over. But there's nothing girly about Ledger's Del Mar. He's classic cowboy, from the way he wrangles his words out through lips opened barely half an inch to his habit of donning his hat to ward off anyone coming too close. Del Mar doesn't have too much to say, but he's got a Russian novel's worth of body language...
...Economic Cooperation summit, his style never goes it alone. At the annual trade talks, he and 20 other heads of state don the traditional garb of the host city, which last week entailed wearing South Korean hanbok in Pusan, below. Next time the U.S. is host, we predict polychrome cowboy boots...