Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alan Ladd rides off into the vast Western sky in Shane. Henry Fonda, as Wyatt Earp, kicks up his feet in front of the saloon in My Darling Clementine. Marshal Dillon stares down Dodge City's main street, and the boys of the Ponderosa sit tall in the saddle together. Few images in popular entertainment have the primal resonance of those from the classic westerns. Or at least they used to. The western, a genre that once proliferated on the big screen and small, until quite recently seemed to be one step away from Boot Hill...
Eight years and a life's worth of struggles, defeats and triumphs later, Musselman made another bittersweet comeback when he returned to Dillon Field house last week to speak with current Harvard athletes and coaches...
...this morning, all was silent in the athletic complex. Blodgett Pool was empty. Dillon Field House was empty. Briggs Athletic Center was empty...
...Wonderful" Matt Dillon plays Gus, a New York City electrical worker with Con Edison, and Annabella Sciorra plays his ex-wife Leonora, who left him so she could make something of herself and now attends college. The two have since moved on to other love interests; Leonora, known as Lee, has been seeing her English professor (William Hurt), and Gus has been contemplating moving in with his devoted girl-friend, Rita (Mary Louise Parker) Contact between Gus and Lee is typically unamicable, filled with mutual accusations concerning who brought about the failure of their marriage. Their squabbles can't conceal...
Several of the characters are playedconvincingly by the able cast. Annabella Sciorrabrings the same warmth and sweetness to Lee thatshe has to past roles, and Matt Dillon gives afine performance in what is one of his first trueleading roles. Mary Louise Parker also gives agood turn as Gus' wistful and weepy girlfriend,who almost makes their relationship work. VincentD'Onofrio is especially good as Lee's nearlysuccessful match. Maybe Lee gives up because ofhis oh-so-romantic croons like, "I'm completelygaga over you." The film wastes so much time ongimmicky matchmaking and extraneous scenes thateven the inevitable finale seems...