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...California pretty,/ I can't survive the Great White Way," sings WAYLON JENNINGS in Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A., the title cut from his potent new album of barroom sermons. Yet the Last Outlaw of country music will get along somehow. His voice, after four decades of late nights and one-nights, has the moral authority of a man who's found mellow wisdom on hard roads. He tells us, in The Hank Williams Syndrome Is Dead, that it's better to trust an artist's songs than to imitate his misspent life. In Didn...
...revisionist western. Unforgiven questions the rules of a macho genre, summing up and maybe atoning for the flinty violence that made Eastwood famous. Frontier life was no idyll; it was filth and boredom punctuated by dumb gunplay. Manhood: why, that's just male vanity, and women can be mutilated for mocking it. The idea of straight shooting as an earnest of heroism -- that's bunk too; it was mostly drunks killing drunks. Unforgiven even gets you musing about death in the movies. "It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man," Will tells a young hombre (Jaimz Woolvett...
...forgive the delay, what with the shuttle, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, the stop at Random House to be cleared by the p.r. department, and the general rule of life that if anything can go wrong, it will. "Four hours. You should have allowed four hours. Anything less is dumb. I was 15 minutes early today...
Bradford's friend Jordan Gulas has remained loyal to bucks and sneakers. Tevas, he says, are "for dumb hippie kids who can't afford shoes...
...Bill Willoughby needs to be mentally sharp at all times. Unfortunately, his 15-hour shuttles to Europe or Asia often leave him feeling more like he left his brain in San Francisco. "In this business," he says, "no matter how tired you are, if you start talking and sound dumb, it's no deal...