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...Chris' chief antagonist. Peter Weller plays Sam with scary perfection. Weller, who most recently portrayed the brain suergon-rqckstar-world hero in Buckaroo Bonsai, switches easily but believably from a dreamy drifter to a dangerous madman, with much of the same charge seen in last year's Star...
James Huberty was not "a grim drifter" at all but a serious family man. It was apparently his inability to support his family, his failed machismo, that finally drove him over the edge...
...vapidly manly Buck Jones-Tom Mix model gave way to a post-World War II demigod. John Wayne, who had none of the old sweet prissiness and was not afraid of the uses of power. Wayne gave way during the Viet Nam era to Clint Eastwood, the high plains drifter with an almost reptilian indifference to death suffered or inflicted. Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; 431 pages; $50) is richly shrewd about the actuality and legend of cowboys, doing justice to both in a commentary by Russell Martin and in photographs that...
...story begins harmlessly enough, spotlighting the young doctor Eduardo Plarr (Richard Gere), as he struts his way through a small Argentine town near the Paraguay border. The handsome drifter, Plarr is half English, half Paraguyan and not quite anything. Although he'd rather keep to himself, he gets thrown into an inadvertant friendship with the English consul Charlie Fortnum (Michael Caine), and entangled by the demands of two old friends, now Paraguayan revolutionaries, who pressure him to help them kidnap a visiting American dignitary. Playing on Parr's apparent feeling for his father, a political prisoner in Paraguay...
Throughout the afternoon, Mayer had insisted, "My personality doesn't mean anything." But it was precisely his disturbed personality that obscured his cause. Born in El Paso on March 31, 1916, Mayer was a drifter. For the past few years he had worked as a maintenance man in Miami Beach hotels. A friend, John Bauer, described him as intelligent, articulate and dedicated. Said Bauer: "He got to the point where he felt he had to do something drastic." In 1976 Mayer was jailed in Hong Kong for attempting to smuggle in marijuana. Although Mayer was deported after serving only...