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Larry McMurtry's splendid horse opera Lonesome Dove was a marvel of nostalgic bosh, and that same rare gift for making heroic tales from small-town street sweepings is on view in his new novel. Pretty Boy Floyd (Simon & Schuster; 444 pages; $24), written with McMurtry's screenwriting partner, Diana Ossana, is a lesser story, loosely tethered to the life and death of the renowned badman Charles Arthur Floyd (1904-34). But like Lonesome Dove, it beguiles the reader with a golden haze of lovely lies...
...narrate The Scarlet Letter. Gone With the Wind is about to be released on tape for the first time, unabridged on 30 cassettes. "Nine years ago, only 8% of the population had heard a book on tape; now it's close to 25%," says Michael Viner, co-founder of Dove Audio, a nine-year-old Los Angeles company that helped pioneer the field...
...cute little girl? Their jeep has been rigged with a bomb that is set go off exactly four weeks after "Speed" opens. That's right, the same idea (slow down and you blow up) that is driving the hit movie "Speed" has been transplanted into the engine of Dove's wife for the big finale chase scene. it's ironic that a movie that is this groundbreakingly bad ends up mirroring another action film in its conclusion...
...easy to see how Dove fit in so well in America, Bridges can't affect and Irish accent to save his life. One does wonder why he chose Boston to settle in, for he can't do that accent either. He is addled with an impossible script but still does his part, through over-done winces and cries of anguish, to take this show to new lows it works...
Lloyd Bridges also stars as Max, Dove's uncle. He actually says things like "the Old country" and no joke, "Arrrrr!" Most people think that Lloyd Bridges can only do comedys about airplanes. Most people are right...